415 Quotes by Aesop

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

Pride goes before destruction.

Obscurity brings safety.

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.''

Every tale is not to be believed.

The memory of a good deed lives.

Time and place often give advantage to the weak over the strong.