Aesop Quotes - Page 6

The value is in the worth, not in the number.

Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

If words suffice not, blows must follow.

The great do not always prevail.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.

I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.

It is possible to have too much of a good thing.

We should find out as much as possible about someone before coming into conflict with him.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.

Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.

It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.

Do not attempt too much at once.

Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.

Good things come in small packages.

If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.

If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.

If you don't want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity

Necessity knows no law.

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