Quotes from Aesop
Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
- Aesop
The covetous are poor givers.
- Aesop
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
- Aesop
United we stand, divided we fall.
- Aesop
O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.
- Aesop
Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.
- Aesop
By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.
- Aesop
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom.
- Aesop
No arguments will give courage to the coward.
- Aesop
In the good days remember also death.
- Aesop
If you attempt what is beyond your power, your trouble will be wasted and you court not only misfortune but ridicule.
- Aesop
Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.
- Aesop