Quotes by Aesop

• Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
• Put your shoulder to the wheel.
• Plodding wins the race.
• Please all, and you will please none.
• Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
• Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
• People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
• Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
• Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
• United we stand, divided we fall.
• It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
• Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
• Slow but steady wins the race.
• We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
• We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
• The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
• The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
• 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.
• The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
• Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
• It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
• We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
• A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
• Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
• It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
• Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
• Appearances are often deceiving.
• Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
• After all is said and done, more is said than done.
• Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
• Adventure is worthwhile.
• 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.
• The gods help them that help themselves.
• Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
• Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
• He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
• It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
• It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
• A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
• If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
• Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
• He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
• Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
• Familiarity breeds contempt.
• Example is the best precept.
• Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
• Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
• Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.