Fables Quotes - Page 3

By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much.

India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.

Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.

The bearers of fables are very welcome.

I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.

The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.

The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the symbols by which man affirms his mental scheme, and these symbols, be they pictorial or mathematical, a fable or formula, will reflect the same changes.

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far.

History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.

Fiction or fable allures to instruction.

We were in another planet and we were reaching for something closer to a fable. It was something fabulous. I started looking at the film as if it happened in another planet and that allowed me even more freedom.