Quotes By Aesop

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Adventure is worthwhile.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Please all, and you will please none.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

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

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

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

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

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Example is the best precept.

Appearances are often deceiving.

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

The gods help them that help themselves.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.