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Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.
Self-help is the best help
Equals make the best friends.
History is fables agreed upon.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
One good turn deserves another.
Please all, and you will please none.
A man is known by the company he keeps
The bearers of fables are very welcome.
Fiction or fable allures to instruction.
Remember, slow and steady wins the race.
Don't count your chickens before they egg.
One writes fables in periods of oppression.
Natural history is not about producing fables.
Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!
As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.
History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.
Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.
I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable.
Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.
There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most
All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.
Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity.
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.
The movies I make, I never see them as accurately portraying a life, but more like fables.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon
I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.
[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.
To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.
Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.
