Fables Quotes - Page 2

Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind

A man is known by the company he keeps

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

One good turn deserves another.

There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has happened, and what will happen, and their response is expressed in metaphor, in image and in fable.

Equals make the best friends.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so much opposition to science?

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

Self-help is the best help

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity.

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.

As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.

Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.