Fables famous quotes
04-09-2025
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The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.
-- Barry Hughart -
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.
-- Beeban Kidron -
To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.
-- Bill Haywood -
Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind
-- Brandon Boyd -
Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
-- Carl Sagan -
Natural history is not about producing fables.
-- David Attenborough -
Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.
-- George Perkins Marsh -
Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.
-- George Washington -
The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt -
Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
-- Horace Mann -
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
-- Irwin Edman -
History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.
-- Ivan Panin -
The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far.
-- Jacques Barzun -
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
-- Jean Cocteau -
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has happened, and what will happen, and their response is expressed in metaphor, in image and in fable.
-- John Wain -
Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.
-- Joseph Addison -
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.
-- Joseph Joubert -
[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.
-- Josephine de Beauharnais -
I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.
-- Margaret Atwood -
[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.
-- Mark Twain -
What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!
-- Pope Leo X -
Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.
-- Ray Bradbury -
There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.
-- Richard Brautigan -
The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity.
-- Richard Carlile -
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
-- Salman Rushdie -
The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable.
-- Thomas Huxley -
Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.
-- Tony Kushner -
I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.
-- Vincent Schiavelli -
I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.
-- Walt Disney -
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
-- William Feather -
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray -
We were in another planet and we were reaching for something closer to a fable. It was something fabulous. I started looking at the film as if it happened in another planet and that allowed me even more freedom.
-- Alex Abreu -
Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.
-- Roger Ross Williams -
Don't count your chickens before they egg.
-- Ross O'Donovan -
Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so much opposition to science?
-- Jerry A. Coyne
