415 Quotes by Aesop

All of us, the great and the little have need of each other.

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it

There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.

If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

Love can tame the wildest.

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.

While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.