Quotes About Fable

That was what the story of Goldilocks and the three bears was all about: breach of trust.

O flowers, country, love, inaction, O fields! I am your devotee! I always note with satisfaction Onegin's difference from me, Lest somewhere a sarcastic reader Or publisher or such-like breeder Of complicated calumny Discerns my physiognomy And shamelessly repeats the fable That I have crudely versified Myself like Byron, bard of pride, As if we were no longer able To write a poem and discuss A subject not concerning us.

Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.

There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship trying to save their possessions, the poet stood idle. When questioned, he declared, mecum mea sunt cuncta: everything that is me is with me.

The major change was going from 'Black and White' to 'Fable,' because I was no longer programming, and I had spent most of my time designing through programming, and only working with people I knew well.

What child is this? "The Infinite has become a finite fact." Everything depends on this, or the nativity story is just a child's fable that no thinking adult can believe.

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

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

Anything but history, for history must be false.

Reality is often unkind to legends.

They came as quietly as rain, and went away like mists drifting. There were jests about them and songs. And the songs outlasted the jests. At last they became a legend, which haunted those farms for ever: they were spoken of when men told of hopeless quests, and held up to laughter or glory, whichever men had to give. And

Indians got a story," Hondo said, "about a hunter who chased a puma until he caught him. Then it was the other way around.

Slowly - slowly. It was haste killed the Yellow Snake that ate the sun

Tabaqui the Jackal must have bitten all these people, he said to himself

THE JUNGLE BOOK

Stories are all we humans have to make us immortal.

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.

What is the use of stories that arent even true?

Apa gunanya dongeng-dongeng itu? Hidup bukanlah sebuah buku cerita atau toko lelucon (hal.18)

If tales are important, they must be well-shaped.

India, the new myth – a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.

So the fox killed his brother, the wolf. (Mother Scaer)

Who killed the girls? The dragon? Or their father?