80 Fabled Quotes
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Famous Fabled Quotes
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. — Diane Arbus
The unicorn is a mythical beast. — James Thurber
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. — Neil Gaiman
A legend - now I am like a unicorn. — Jean Giraud
Fairy tales are more than true. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions. — Paul Henderson
Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man. — Daniel Boone
Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters — Francisco Goya
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. — Walt Disney
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived. — John Boorman
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. — Neil Gaiman
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true. — Ulysses S. Grant
The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story. — Ella Fitzgerald
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more. — Laini Taylor
Story book endings, fairytales coming true. — Carrie Underwood
Short Fabled Quotes
- Remember, slow and steady wins the race. — Ieyasu Tokugawa
- Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. — Sappho
- Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies. — Thomas Jefferson
- Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune. — James Weldon Johnson
- Don't count your chickens before they egg. — Ross O'Donovan
- The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself. — Ramakrishna
- Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. — Charles Caleb Colton
- The smaller the mind, the greater the ego. — Tom Clancy
- Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most — Aesop
- There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fables Quotes
giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success. — Storm Jameson
On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . . — Charles Dickens
Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them. — Gustave Le Bon
We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters. — E. O. Wilson
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. — Thomas Jefferson
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? — Washington Irving
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. — Edward Abbey
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system. — Will Durant
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. — Thomas Aquinas
It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity and summon the genie and command him to crown her with power and greatness and bring to her feet the hoarded treasures of the earth. — Mark Twain
People Writing About Fabled
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Neil Gaiman |
1082 | 4134 |
 Diane Arbus |
68 | 976 |
 James Thurber |
185 | 1867 |
 Gilbert K. Chesterton |
1194 | 5563 |
 Paul Henderson |
22 | 45 |
 Daniel Boone |
37 | 1130 |
More Fabled Quotes
There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything. — Dan Chaon
I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life. — Gabriele d'Annunzio
That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away. — Marc Maron
There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one was a man, and he drank water; and one was a demon, and he drank filth. What you get is a function of your own consciousness. — Joseph Campbell
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. — Irwin Edman
I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people. — Frederick the Great
Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself. — Soren Kierkegaard
But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed? — John Adams
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they're both amazing ways to understand human nature. — Salman Rushdie
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church. — Robert Anton Wilson
Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true. — Thomas Merton
I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action. — Walt Disney
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten. — Aeschylus
You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands. — James Madison
Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life? — Sylvia Plath
Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below, Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow, Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread? — Thomas Hood
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself. — Aesop
What is history but a fable agreed upon? — Napoleon Bonaparte
To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible. — Bill Haywood
And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and so away. — Richard Crashaw
If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself. — Aesop
The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown. — Charles Dickens
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop. — Lin Yutang
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