Aesop Quotes

″...instead of being stubborn and stiff, and confiding in my strength, I yield and bend, letting the blast go over me, knowing that it would be fruitless to resist.”

“My death would be regretted, yours would not.”

“Pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water and within a hair’s breadth of starving or drowning.”

“Your outside is all that’s worth while, while I, for all my plain and humble garb, can sing with such sweet melody...”

“We’ll have to hit the road, for when a man undertakes to do his own business, it is not likely that he will be disappointed.”

″...study yourself and try to find out if there are qualities in you which are as good as those discovered in others.”

″...I’m not fool enough to give up certainty for an uncertainty.”

“The best you do does not counterbalance the worst.”

“I remember alike those who sought my life with stones and those who gave me food- lay aside therefore your fears. I return as an enemy only to those who injured me.”

″...when I paid you honor, I reaped no benefits, but now that I ill-treat you I am loaded with an abundance of riches.”