After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield

Enemies promises were made to be broken.

An Ass put on a Lion’s skin and wentAbout the foreset with much merriment,Scaring the foolish beasts by brooks and rocks,Till at last he tried to scare the Fox. But Reynard, hearing from beneath the...

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

You may share the labors of the great, but you may not share the spoil

Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Example is the best precept.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

Plodding wins the race.

There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer’s day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The...

Much wants more and loses all.

Little friends may prove great friends.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow

The gods help them that help themselves.

Adventure is worthwhile.

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

It is easier to get into the enemy’s toils than out again.

Little by little does the trick.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged...

Slow but steady wins the race

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable, that when he died he told his sons that he had left unto...

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

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters

Kindness effects more than severity.

United we stand, divided we fall.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another

In union there is strength.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

I would by all means have men beware, lest Aesop’s pretty fable of the fly that sate on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, ‘What a dust do I raise,’...

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong.” And after the Hare said this, he ran for his...

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

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.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Obscurity brings safety.