Fable Bard Quotes & Sayings

There's nobody quite as mean as people being mean for Jesus. — The Rev

When I was a player, I worried only about myself. Good money and easy work. — Mickey Cochrane

Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending. — Tom Stoppard

Happy the bard, (if that fair name belong
To him that blends no fable with his song)
Whose lines uniting, by an honest art,
The faithful monitors and poets part,
Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind,
And while they captivate, inform the mind.
Still happier, if he till a thankful soil,
And fruit reward his honorable toil:
But happier far who comfort those that wait
To hear plain truth at Judah's hallow'd gate — William Cowper

Don't allow people to define you based on reading the abstract of your story without even reading chapter 1. Continue to write the remaining chapters. — Assegid Habtewold

To Randolph the answer was self-evident. Jefferson had proved too much of a compromiser. Moderation, Randolph said, was "the mask which ambition has worn" through the ages.27 By the last year of the president's term, Randolph would tell James Monroe, "The old republican party is already ruined, past redemption."28 Jefferson — Jon Meacham

My love thoughts these days Come thick like the summer grass Which soon as cut and raked
Grows — Gary Snyder

Arizona is now recognized as a premier place in which to locate, expand and grow a business. — Jan Brewer

In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing. — Elon Musk

We where not put on this earth to be ordinary, we where created to be extraordinary. — Frederick Owen

The first song is called 'London.' It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime. — Neil Tennant

It's all bullshit on Everest these days. — Edmund Hillary

O flowers, country, love, inaction,
O fields! I am your devotee!
I always note with satisfaction
Onegin's difference from me,
Lest somewhere a sarcastic reader
Or publisher or such-like breeder
Of complicated calumny
Discerns my physiognomy
And shamelessly repeats the fable
That I have crudely versified
Myself like Byron, bard of pride,
As if we were no longer able
To write a poem and discuss
A subject not concerning us. — Alexander Pushkin

Everything that occurs in the temple is uplifting and ennobling. It speaks of life here and life beyond the grave. It speaks of the importance of the individual as a child of God. It speaks of the importance of the family and the eternity of the marriage relationship. — Gordon B. Hinckley

A simple and heart-warming fable, one might think - in which case, one would reveal oneself to be an innocent nincompoop. — J.K. Rowling