“Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.”

“The North Wind and the Sun”

“He that has many friends, has no friends.”

“If words suffice not, blows must follow.”

“it, for numbers of Rooks and starlings”

“Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.”

“There was once a Charcoal-burner who lived and worked by himself. A Fuller, however, happened to come and settle in the same neighbourhood; and the Charcoal-burner, having made his acquaintance and finding he was”

“Not all creatures can become as great as they think.”

“It takes great skill to do the right thing at the right time.”

“A Man and a Lion were discussing the relative strength of men and lions in general. The Man contended that he and his fellows were stronger than lions by reason of their greater intelligence. "Come now with me," he cried, "and I will soon prove that I am right." So he took him into the public gardens and showed him a statue of Hercules overcoming the Lion and tearing his mouth in two. "That is all very well," said the Lion, "but proves nothing, for it was a man who made the statue." We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.”

“Having tasted the honeycomb, he threw down his axe, and looking on the tree as sacred, took great care of it.”

“It is easy to propose impossible remedies." The”

“Tut, man, don't sprawl there. Get up and put your shoulder to the wheel.”

“exclaimed, "O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.”

“Don’t take it so much to heart, my friend; put a brick into the hole, and take a look at it every day: you won’t be any worse off than before, for even when you had your gold it was of no earthly use to you.”

“THE WOLF AND THE LAMB A Wolf came upon a Lamb straying from the flock,”

“Lean Freedom is Better than Fat Slavery "

“We may often be of more consequence in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbours.”

“Misfortune tests the sincerity of friendship.”

“Evil wishes, like fowls, come home to roost.”

“The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.”

“The covetous are poor givers.”

“Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.”

“We tend to underestimate the small things about ourselves that are often our most valuable attributes.”

“He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.”

“Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom.”

“Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.”

“they were, they soon began to think they were not getting rich fast enough, and, imagining the bird must be made of gold inside, they decided to kill it in order to secure the”

“Wealth unused might as well not exist.”

“This fable shows that ornaments of the spirit are preferable to a beautiful body.”

“It is like this in a city-state; the demagogues thrive by throwing the state into discord.”

“I can never be your friend because of my lost tail, nor you mine because of your lost child.”

“Your words, O Hares! are good; but they lack both claws and teeth such as we have.”

“Oh, stop! stop! I beg of you: what is sport to you is death to us.”

“It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard.”

“The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course.”

“The Lion was so much in love that he had his claws trimmed and his big teeth taken out for her.”

“In the good days remember also death.”

“I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not have been contented to labor with my companions, and not wish to be idle all the day like that useless little Lapdog!”

“If you are wise you won’t be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.”

“the appointed day came, the birds assembled before Jupiter's throne; and, after passing them in review, he was about to make the Jackdaw king, when all the rest set upon the king-elect, stripped him of his borrowed plumes, and exposed him for the Jackdaw that he was.”

“They had then got to a bridge over the river, where”

“Every person, according to an ancient legend, is born into the world with two bags suspended from their neck: all bags in front full of their neighbors’ faults, and a large bag behind filled with his own faults. Hence it is that people are quick to see the faults of others, and yet are often blind to their own failings.”

“began to caw her best, but”

“The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger, when a traveler came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveler take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveler fold his cloak around him; and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shined out warmly, and immediately the traveler took off his cloak. And so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two.”

“These are weighty topics, and the brief fables that address them do not claim to solve the problems that they embody, but then neither do they simply brush such problems aside, pretending that they do not exist.”