Aesop Quotes

ancient Greek storyteller (-619–-563)

Aesop (or Æsop, from Greek Αἴσωπος Aisopos) (c. 620 BC – c. 560 BC) was an ancient Greek fabulist of possibly African descent (his Greek name means Ethiopian or black man in today's parlance), by tradition a slave who credited the African goddess Isis for his gift. Aesop's Fables are still taught as moral lessons and used as subjects for various entertainments, especially children's plays and cartoons.

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Native Name: Αἴσωπος

Alternative Names: Aesopus • Esop • Æsop • Eſope • Æſop

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Necessity is the mother of invention.

No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Once a wolf, always a wolf.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

In trying to please all, he had pleased none.

Those who suffer most cry out the least.

Little by little does the trick.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

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.

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