415 Quotes by Aesop

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

I don't mind having to die now, for I see that he is the cause of my death is about to share the same fate.

Much wants more and loses all.

No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth