Aesopic Quotes & Sayings

The citadel with its wicked truths and his power-hungry uncle was gone, but Rafe couldn't erase what he knew. His entire life, everyone's existence, had been based on lies. — Eve Langlais

Chorus of women: [ ... ] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way. — Aristophanes

We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American pastime for a lot of women. — Mindy Kaling

When the Byzantine emperor Isaac Angelus demanded it for the Orthodox, Saladin decided that they must share it under his supervision and appointed Sheikh Ghanim al-Khazraji as Custodian of the Church, a role still performed today by his descendants, the Nusseibeh family. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it. — Josh Billings

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

I'd rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I'd take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That's not living. — Margot Robbie

Be careful. There are people out there who will look at your love only as a place to put their pain. — Beau Taplin

As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation. — William Bradford

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. — Amelia Barr

Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook. — Barbara Rosenblat

I love all religions ... If people become better Hindus, better Muslims, better Buddhists by our acts of love, then there is something else growing there." She upheld that there are many ways to God': "All is God - Buddists, Hindus, Christians, etc., all have access to the same God." — Mother Teresa

It's loud and annoying and sounds ridiculous, anyway."
"Build a bridge."
"What?"
"Get over it. — Santino Hassell

The horse at the bottom of the river, shrouded by the sunken night sky, closed its heavy eyes. The prehistoric ant in Yankel's ring, which had lain motionless in the honey-colored amber since long before Noah hammered the first plank, hid its head between its many legs, in shame. — Jonathan Safran Foer