Best and Most Famous Quotes from Aesop

The best and most famous quotes from the Fables of Aesop are the little moral lessons that we all learned as children. I enjoy going back and reading from Aesop’s Fables when I get a chance. The following are, in my opinion, the best of the famous quotes from Aesop.

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER ONE
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety .

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER TWO
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.

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER THREE
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER FOUR
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER FIVE
Appearances are often deceiving.

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER SIX
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER SEVEN
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER EIGHT
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 .

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER NINE
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to ei ther.

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER TEN
Example is the best precept.

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER ELEVEN
Familiarity breeds contempt

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER TWELVE
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

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BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER THIRTEEN
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER FOURTEEN
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER FIFTEEN
It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER SIXTEEN
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER SEVENTEEN
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER EIGHTEEN
Persuasion is often more effectual than force .

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER NINETEEN
Please all, and you will please none

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER TWENTY
Slow but steady wins the race

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER TWENTY ONE
The gods help them that help themselves

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER TWENTY TWO
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over .

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER TWENTY THREE
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER TWENTY FOUR
United we stand, divided we fall.

BEST AESOP QUOTES NUMBER TWENTY FIVE
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction

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