Top 300 Aesop Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.”

— Aesop

52. “I am sure the grapes are sour.”

— Aesop

53. “Appearances are often deceiving.”

— Aesop

54. “Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.”

— Aesop

55. “The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.”

— Aesop

56. “Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”

— Aesop

57. “Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.”

— Aesop

58. “Who acts in haste repents at leisure.”

— Aesop

59. “The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.”

— Aesop

60. “He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.”

— Aesop

61. “After the rain cometh the fair weather.”

— Aesop

62. “Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.”

— Aesop

63. “The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise!”

— Aesop

64. “Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave.”

— Aesop

65. “If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.”

— Aesop

66. “Distrust unsolicited advice.”

— Aesop

67. “One story sounds good until another is told.”

— Aesop

68. “Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.”

— Aesop

69. “Obscurity often brings safety.”

— Aesop

70. “Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.”

— Aesop

71. “Little friends may prove great friends.”

— Aesop

72. “Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.”

— Aesop

73. “It pays to be prepared.”

— Aesop

74. “Don’t make much ado about nothing.”

— Aesop

75. “Necessity knows no law.”

— Aesop

76. “The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”

— Aesop

77. “Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.”

— Aesop

78. “It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.”

— Aesop

79. “Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.”

— Aesop

80. “Harm seek, harm find.”

— Aesop

81. “The strong and the weak cannot keep company.”

— Aesop

82. “Don’t neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.”

— Aesop

83. “Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.”

— Aesop

84. “Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.”

— Aesop

85. “I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.”

— Aesop

86. “What a splendid head, yet no brain.”

— Aesop

87. “Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.”

— Aesop

88. “Do nothing without regard to the consequences.”

— Aesop

89. “Much outcry, little outcome.”

— Aesop

90. “We often despise what is most useful to us.”

— Aesop

91. “A word in season is most precious.”

— Aesop

92. “It is easy to kick a person when he is down.”

— Aesop

93. “Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.”

— Aesop

94. “Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.”

— Aesop

95. “It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.”

— Aesop

96. “Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors’ faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.”

— Aesop

97. “Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.”

— Aesop

98. “The gods help them who help themselves.”

— Aesop

99. “The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.”

— Aesop

100. “Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.”

— Aesop