Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
One writes fables in periods of oppression.
Do not waste your pity on a scamp.
Much wants more and loses all.
New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into y...
The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was a hero come to rescue her. She was the only daughter of wealth and power. He was the seventh son of the lord of the seventh Care. She was beautif...
Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
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.
Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling.
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.
I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool
All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.
Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.
I can't be friends with a man who blows hot and cold with the same breath.