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  • I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind. -- Francis Bacon
  • Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. -- Hypatia
  • Natural history is not about producing fables. -- David Attenborough
  • There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. -- Walt Disney
  • I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play. -- Vincent Schiavelli
  • The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. -- William Feather
  • Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church. -- Robert Anton Wilson
  • I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot more. -- Cobie Smulders
  • Giraffes are fairytale animals, almost heraldic - as if from the land of fables. They have extremely beautiful faces, huge eyes, very sensitive nostrils and oh, blue tongues! -- Joanna Lumley
  • Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. -- Thomas Aquinas
  • I very much use Bill Willingham's approach on 'Fables,' which is that rather than having an end point to a series, I have an end point for the various story lines. -- Chris Roberson
  • I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine. -- Michael Morpurgo
  • I love creator-owned comics. Most of my favorite books these days are creator-owned, from stuff DC publishes, like 'Fables,' to books like 'Saga,' 'Fatale,' 'Hellboy,' and 'Courtney Crumrin.' -- Kurt Busiek
  • When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format. -- Mark Mothersbaugh
  • I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President. -- William Allen White
  • Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it. -- Joseph Addison
  • We were breaking away from anything that linked us to this world, but by doing that those ideas remained even stronger. Fables represent the basis for what I wanted to say about human beings. -- Alex Abreu
  • ...An editorial of the Journal AMA, Jan 8, 1949, discussed the Gerson Therapy under the heading 'Frauds and Fables'. At that time, Dr. Gerson's lawyer wrote a letter to the JAMA, threatening a suit for libel...The editorial was withdrawn...(leaving) columns which were blank. -- Charlotte Gerson
  • One writes fables in periods of oppression. -- Italo Calvino
  • What is history but a fable agreed upon? -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables -- Charles Spurgeon
  • Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break. -- Jeanette Winterson
  • We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. -- Horace Mann
  • Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory. -- Edmund White
  • It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. -- Irwin Edman
  • We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them. -- Peter Benchley
  • Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things. -- Tony Kushner
  • I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids. -- Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system. -- Will Durant
  • I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth. -- Kara Walker
  • From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own. -- Alfred de Vigny
  • The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • I have come to the conclusion that a goodly number of the fables that pass under the name of the Samian slave, Aesop, were derived from India, probably from the same source whence the same tales were utilised in the Jatakas, or Birth-stories of Buddha. -- Joseph Jacobs
  • I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of stories where his trademark anarchy is combined with a tautness of writing that shines an affectionate yet uncompromising spotlight on some of the absurdities of human behaviour. -- Giles Andreae
  • There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it. -- Joseph Conrad
  • If you read the fables, 'Beowulf,' for example, you will know something about the person who writes them, and I like that. Secondly, they will not be about individuals; they will be about community. Thirdly, they're all about moralizing. Fourthly, the way they express themselves takes its tone from the oral tradition. -- Jim Crace
  • These are stories you hear... of people sitting in a mall and being spotted, and you think it will happen to you. And when you're fresh off the boat, and new in Bombay, you want those kind of things! They are magical fables. You want to, somewhere, be a part of it, something people will read about. But reality is different. -- Nimrat Kaur
  • History is fables agreed upon. -- Voltaire
  • The bearers of fables are very welcome. -- Monique Wittig
  • Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. -- Sappho
  • National literature begins with fables and ends with novels. -- Joseph Joubert
  • A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables. -- Richard Whately
  • [The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology. -- Mark Twain
  • Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky. -- Alexander Pope
  • There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds. -- Richard Brautigan
  • All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy. -- Abraham Cowley
  • To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible. -- Bill Haywood
  • Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith. -- Johann Georg Hamann
  • Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind -- Brandon Boyd
  • All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon -- Voltaire
  • If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood. -- Thomas Paine
  • Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
  • I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals. -- Margaret Atwood
  • By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much. -- Stephen King
  • They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • That's the problem with them fables, they're putting animals together that wouldn't meet. I don't know where a scorpion is knockin' around with a frog. -- Karl Pilkington
  • Will they remember us, Aravan? Will Mankind remember us at all?" ... Mayhap, Gwylly, mayhap. Mayhap in their legends and their fables. Mayhap in naught but their dreams. -- Dennis L. McKiernan
  • Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
  • Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose. -- Denis Johnston
  • It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway. -- Ouida
  • Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves. -- Peter Drucker
  • Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so much opposition to science? -- Jerry A. Coyne
  • Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history! -- Charles Lamb
  • I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people. -- Frederick the Great
  • We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries. -- Thomas Paine
  • We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need. -- David Gemmell
  • Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed? -- John Adams
  • I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • From a human point of view, out bodily existence is a fairytale. At any rate, to the inhabitants of the human world, 'heaven' and 'the next world' are both nothing but fables. -- CLAMP
  • the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown... -- Charles Dickens
  • . . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth are traceable to the age of Ignorance, the mother of credulity. -- Edward Clodd
  • [Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables. -- Sandra Cisneros
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