Quotes About Fable

The Tower of Babel didn't work out well for anyone involved, but like the bulk of the Bible, that story was just a fairy tale, and a pretty boring one at that.

Turn again, Whittington,Lord Mayor of London.

This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

The lie has seven endings.

There was a man in our town,And he was wondrous wise;He jumped into a bramble bushAnd scratched out both his eyes.

He would flay the fox, say the ape's paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. He would beat the dogs before the lion, put the plough before the oxen, and claw where it did not itch.

Mercy is a chimera.

An Empress drank her husband's blood in long draughts thousands of years ago.

A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.

Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'

For me, the first thing is to tell a good story.

Según la visión pesimista, en las elecciones de 2018, como dice la fábula, la hormiga, por odio a la cucaracha, votó por el insecticida: murieron todos, hasta el grillo que se abstuvo.

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Fairytale: presents impossible events under possible or almost impossible conditions as though they were possible.

Now and then the fable of the horse recurs to me. Weary of liberty, he suffered himself to be saddled and bridled, and was ridden to death for his pains.

Stories to read are delitabill (delightful) Suppose that they be nocht but fable (fiction) Then should stories that suthfast were (truthful) - And they were said in good manner - Have double pleasure in hearing. The first pleasance is the carping (reading aloud) And the tothir the suthfastness That shows the thing richt as it was;

You mean they killed her?" asked David. They ate her," said Brother Number One. "With porridge. That's what 'ran away and was never seen again' means in these parts. It means 'eaten.'" Um and what about 'happily ever after'?" asked David, a little uncertainly. "What does that mean?" Eaten quickly," said Brother Number One.

People in tales don't know, always. But there they are.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

The couple who invites the third person or an institution to mediate in their internal tussle has not learnt any lesson from the 'A monkey and two cats' story.

The dream of a cat is filled with mice

If there is a good story, I will take it up.

Plato has given to all posterity the model of a new art form, the model of the novel --which may be described as an infinitely enhanced Aesopian fable, in which poetry holds the same rank in relation to dialectical philosophy as this same philosophy held for many centuries in relation to theology: namely the rank of ancilla .

I wish, to be honest, that there were more myths about me. I wish I was more of a mythical person, and that then I'd have myths to dispel.