Fables Quotes

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Remember, slow and steady wins the race.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

Please all, and you will please none.

What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

Don't count your chickens before they egg.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most

I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.

If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Oh this is reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied until we are brought to this.

To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.

History is fables agreed upon.

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable.

For me, the photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving the appearances - a way of signifying, through this fabulous capture, that this supposed real world is always about to lose its meaning and its reality.

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.