Fox Grapes Quotes & Sayings

Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you. — John Scott

[She] had occasionally glimpsed a series of interchangeable well-groomed blondes accompanying him to work events, then Grace had rocked up with her funny-coloured hair and her funny-coloured tights, and Vaughn had been smitten. Well, as smitten as Vaughn could be. — Sarra Manning

Recall Aesop's fable of the fox and the grapes. After trying in vain to reach the grapes, the fox gives up and wanders away, muttering, "They were probably sour anyway." The fox's change of heart is a perfect example of a common strategy we instinctively use to reduce dissonance. When we experience a conflict between our beliefs and our actions, we can't rewind time and take back what we've already done, so we adjust our beliefs to bring them in line with our actions. If the story had gone differently, and the fox had managed to get the grapes, only to discover they were sour, he would have told himself that he liked sour grapes in order to avoid feeling that his effort had been a waste. — Sheena Iyengar

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files. — Timothy Murphy

If a relationship is built on sexuality, it won't last long. — Terrence Howard

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Aesop fable. "You can play the clever fox all you want - but you'll never get the grapes that way. — Rolf Dobelli

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12. — Richard Roeper

THE FOX AND THE GRAPES
A hungry Fox saw some fine bunches of Grapes hanging from a vine that was trained along a high trellis, and did his best to reach them by jumping as high as he could into the air. But it was all in vain, for they were just out of reach: so he gave up trying, and walked away with an air of dignity and unconcern, remarking, I thought those Grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour. — Aesop

If we do not resolve the euro crisis, we will all pay the price. And if we do resolve it, we will all benefit, particularly German taxpayers and savers. — Mario Draghi

Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion. — Hosea Ballou

I just want to play for a team that wants me. — Andrew Wiggins

She envied the security of valuable 'pieces' which change by no hair's breadth, only grow in value, while their owners lose inch by inch youth, happiness, beauty[.] — Henry James

There is no madder nation than Japan ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of thick-lens glasses and did the most suicidal trick a few years ago. It's the doggonedest country. — L. Ron Hubbard

I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life has been wasted. Any passionate and courageous life seems good in itself, yet one feels that some element of delusion is involved in giving so much passion to any humanly attainable object. And so irony creeps into the very springs of one's being. — Bertrand Russell

The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe. — George Herbert

We are so very 'umble. — Charles Dickens

Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour. — Dorothy Parker

A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically. — R. Buckminster Fuller

It's not all peeling grapes, being a handmaiden," said Ptraci. "The first lesson we learn is, when the master has had a long hard day it is not the best time to suggest the Congress of the Fox and the Persimmon. Who says you have to do anything? — Terry Pratchett

I am sure the grapes are sour. — Aesop

Active love doesn't ask: 'What does this person have to offer me?' Rather: 'What do I have to offer this person? — Cole Ryan

And autumn ain't so shabby for wow, either. The colors are broccoli and flame and fox fur. The tang is apples, death, and wood smoke. The rot smells faintly of grapes, of fermentation, of one element being changed alchemically into another, and the air is moist and you sleep under two down comforters in a cold room. The trails are not dusty anymore, and you get to wear your favorite sweaters. — Anne Lamott