Aesop Quotes

Plodding wins the race.

Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything.

Much wants more and loses all.

The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what will become of us if he marries and and begets other suns?

Do not waste your pity on a scamp.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

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 mane That Raucous voice so petulant and vain,Remarked. O' Ass, I too would run away,But that I know your old familiar bray'.That's just the way with asses, just the way.