Aesop Quotes

“Be content with your lot; once cannot be first in everything.”
― Aesop

“I would by all means have men beware, lest Aesop's pretty fable of the fly that sate on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the sky, raises new skies and new spheres and circles.”
― Francis Bacon, The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon (Unexpurgated Edition)

“Who acts in haste repents at leisure.”
― Aesop

“The North Wind and the Sun disputed which was the more powerful, and agreed that he should be declared the victor who could first strip a wayfaring man of his clothes. The North Wind first tried his power, and blew with all his might; but the keener became his blasts, the closer the Traveler wrapped his cloak around him, till at last, resigning all hope of victory, he called upon the Sun to see what he could do. The Sun suddenly shone out with all his warmth. The Traveler no sooner felt his genial rays that he took off one garment after another, and at last, fairly overcome with heat, undressed, and bathed in a stream that lay in his path.
Persuasion i better than Force.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable, that when he died he told his sons that he had left unto them gold buried under the ground in his vineyard: and they digged over the ground, gold they found none, but by reason of their stirring and digging the mould about the roots of their vines, they had a great vintage the year following: so assuredly the search and stir to make gold hath brought to light a great number of good and fruitful inventions and experiments, as well for the disclosing of nature as for the use of man's life.”
― Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

“Because When you write about people, you inevitably offend--but if you write about animals, the evil do not recognize themselves but the good understand immediately.”
― Erica Jong, Sappho's Leap

“The turtle wins the race.

Stability > Tranquility > Ability > Mobility > Power”
― Psixaeristw

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
---AESOP”
― Hillary Manton Lodge, Reservations for Two