Quotes About Fable

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

The most famous of them all was the overthrow of the island of Atlantis.

Do you know Aesop? The fable titled 'The Great and the Little Fishes'?

Do you know the fable titled 'The Vain Wolf and the Lion'?

Will they remember us, Aravan? Will Mankind remember us at all? ... Mayhap, Gwylly, mayhap. Mayhap in their legends and their fables. Mayhap in naught but their dreams.

Every legend has one foot on the truth.

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?

The Finns also have a rather lovely word for the aurora borealis: revontulet, which translates as 'foxfire'. The origins are supposedly in a Finnish fable, in which an Arctic fox, running through snow, sprayed up crystals with his tail, causing sparks to fly off into the night sky.

This [love] ought to be a furnace that should melt us all into one heart, and should create such a fervour in us … that we should heartily love each other.' But that which in the truth of religion is the essence of the fable, is to the religious consciousness only the moral of the fable, a collateral thing.

You don't create legends out of other legends.

When the time was right he would run away—and be part of the story.

You can't go on without a story any longer than you can read a book about nothing.

Romulus and Remus, twin sons of dark Mars and a human vestal, sucking at the dugs of a wolf bitch.

The wisdom of goldilocks and three bears story is applicable to a lot.

And to the far north were a people who did not believe that Oceanos' river circled the earth, but instead it was a great girdling serpent, thick around as a boat and always hungry. It could never be still, for its appetite drove it ever onwards, devouring everything bite by bite, and one day when it had eaten all the world, it would devour itself.

Defoe's Moll Flanders, Fielding's Tom Jones and Johnson's moralizing fable, Rasselas.

there is a story you should hear.

Nor was his name unheard or unador'd In ancient Greece; and in Ausonian land Men call'd him Mulciber; and how he fell From Heav'n, they fabl'd, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o're the Chrystal Battlements: from Morn To Noon he fell, from Noon to dewy Eve, A Summers day; and with the setting Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star, On Lemnos th' Ægean Ile: thus they relate, Erring...

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can't afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if you're an egg.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.