Aesop > Quotes

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
― Aesop

“Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“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.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

“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.”
― Aesop

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
― Aesop

“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”
― Aesop

“Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
― Aesop

“If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

“Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most”
― aesop

“A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.”
― Aesop

“It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.”
― Aesop

“Please all, and you will please none.”
― Aesop

“The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.”
― Aesop

“United we stand; divided we fall.”
― Aesop

“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth”
― Aesop

“Adversity tests the sincerity of friends”
― aesop

“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”
― Aesop

“Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.”
― Aesop

“The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”
― Aesop

“Once a wolf, always a wolf.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

“Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.”
― Aesop

“In trying to please all, he had pleased none.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

“Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

“Those who suffer most cry out the least.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“Little by little does the trick.”
― Aesop

“The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.”
― Aesop

“We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction”
― aesop