Aesop Quotes

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

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• There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Past
  • Temptation
  • Ornament

• I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Thought
  • Doing
  • Blues

• I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Hindsight

• Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Better
  • Laws
  • Legal

• I open the doors for everybody all the time.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Doors
  • Open

• All of my main characters have been under 30.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Characters
  • Been
  • Main

• People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Music
  • True
  • Walking

• Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Better

• I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Think
  • Mistake
  • Hollywood

• We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Way
  • Taken
  • Easy

• I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Live
  • Government
  • Happiness

• Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Important
  • Science
  • Amazing

• I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • World
  • Always
  • Old

• We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.

  

  Majora Carter
  • World
  • Live
  • Happy

• It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • City
  • California
  • Down

• I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

  

  Jack Adams
  • May
  • Japanese
  • Islands

• Don't fight the problem, decide it.

  

  George C. Marshall

• Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Wonder
  • Praise
  • Table

• For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.

  

  Samuel Lover

• Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

  

  Duane Michals
  • Life
  • Work
  • Nature

• For 14 years, I'd been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I'd lost my tolerance for pills. If I had a single drink, the alcohol, on top of the pills, would make me groggy.

  

  Betty Ford
  • Lost
  • Single
  • Drink

• It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

  

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