Quotes by Fabulists

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made I tried to be an herbalist whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.
Jean de La Fontaine
By the work one knows the workman.
Jean de La Fontaine
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phaedrus
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Jean de La Fontaine
Little by little does the trick.
Aesop
Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
Jean de La Fontaine
The worst time is always the present.
Jean de La Fontaine
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
Aesop
Plodding wins the race.
Aesop
From a distance it is something and nearby it is nothing.
Jean de La Fontaine
Help yourself and heaven will help you.
Jean de La Fontaine
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
Jean de La Fontaine
Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
Phaedrus
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine
All roads lead to Rome but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
Jean de La Fontaine
After the rain cometh the fair weather.
Aesop
It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray.
Aesop
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
Jean de La Fontaine
The more wary you are of danger the more likely you are to meet it.
Jean de La Fontaine
Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul impossibilities vanish.
Jean de La Fontaine
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
Jean de La Fontaine
Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
Jean de La Fontaine
To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!
Jean de La Fontaine
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
Aesop
I bend but I do not break.
Jean de La Fontaine
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
Jean de La Fontaine
After the rain cometh the fair weather.
Aesop
It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray.
Aesop
Help yourself and heaven will help you.
Jean de La Fontaine
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
Jean de La Fontaine
The more wary you are of danger the more likely you are to meet it.
Jean de La Fontaine
Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul impossibilities vanish.
Jean de La Fontaine
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
Jean de La Fontaine
Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
Jean de La Fontaine
To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!
Jean de La Fontaine
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
Aesop
I bend but I do not break.
Jean de La Fontaine
Plodding wins the race.
Aesop
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
Jean de La Fontaine
One returns to the place one came from.
Jean de La Fontaine
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
Aesop
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
Jean de La Fontaine
Thou hast added insult to injury.
Phaedrus
Injuries may be forgiven but not forgotten.
Aesop
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
Aesop
Kindness affects more than severity.
Aesop
In this world we must help one another.
Jean de La Fontaine
We risk all in being too greedy.
Jean de La Fontaine
In everything one must consider the end.
Jean de La Fontaine
What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
Jean de La Fontaine
Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything.
Aesop
We are never content with our lot.
Jean de La Fontaine
Better to suffer than to die.
Jean de La Fontaine
A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise."
Jean de La Fontaine
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Jean de La Fontaine
Though this may be play to you Tis death to us.
Aesop
Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
Jean de La Fontaine
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
Phaedrus