Quotes from Aesop


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Adventure is worthwhile.


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


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


A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.


Appearances are often deceiving.


Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.


Please all, and you will please none.


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.


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


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


The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.


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


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


Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.


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


The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.


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


The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.


United we stand, divided we fall.


Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.