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| Aesop Greek. Author. Semi-legendary figure; hundreds of animal fables atrributed to him.
"Why bother about winter?" said the Grasshopper; "we have got plenty of food at present." ...all the modern inconveniences...A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.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. A man who has no enemies has no friends. Acquaintance softens prejudice.Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and learning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots. Any excuse will serve a tyrantAny excuse will serve a tyrant. Appearances often are deceiving. Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror. Better to starve free than be a fat slave.Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. Enemies' promises were made to be broken.Every truth has two sides. It is well to look at both sides before we commit ourselves to either side. Example is the best precept.Familiarity breeds contempt. Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another.He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends. I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath. If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.In union there is strength.Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.Little by little does the trick.Little friends may prove great friends.Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.Much outcry, little outcome.Never trust the advice of men in difficulties.No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.Obscurity brings safety.Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.Persuasion is often more effectual than force.Please all, and you will please none.Plodding wins the race.Put your shoulder to the wheel.Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.Slow but steady wins the race.The gods help them that help themselves. The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy;
foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find,- nothing.Vices are their own punishment.We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. We often despise what is most useful to us. We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.Wealth unused might as well not exist. What a splendid head, yet no brain. Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.You may share the labors of the great, but you may not share the spoil. |
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