Top 300 Aesop Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window.”

— Aesop

102. “We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.”

— Aesop

103. “Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.”

— Aesop

104. “If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.”

— Aesop

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

— Aesop

106. “Every one is more or less master of his own fate.”

— Aesop

107. “Those who suffer most cry out the least.”

— Aesop

108. “Example is the best precept.”

— Aesop

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

— Aesop

110. “Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom.”

— Aesop

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

— Aesop

112. “Think twice before you act.”

— Aesop

113. “What’s bred in the bone is sure to come out in the flesh.”

— Aesop

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

— Aesop

115. “The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.”

— Aesop

116. “Much wants more and loses all.”

— Aesop

117. “Only cowards insult dying majesty.”

— Aesop

118. “Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.”

— Aesop

119. “False friends leave you in times of trouble.”

— Aesop

120. “Every tale is not to be believed.”

— Aesop

121. “Put your shoulder to the wheel.”

— Aesop

122. “Vices are their own punishment.”

— Aesop

123. “He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.”

— Aesop

124. “Facts speak plainer than words.”

— Aesop

125. “Equals make the best friends.”

— Aesop

126. “We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.”

— Aesop

127. “Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.”

— Aesop

128. “In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.”

— Aesop

129. “If you are wise you won’t be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.”

— Aesop

130. “Any excuse will serve a tyrant.”

— Aesop

131. “Don’t be in a hurry to change one evil for another.”

— Aesop

132. “Implementation beats oration.”

— Aesop

133. “A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”

— Aesop

134. “Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.”

— Aesop

135. “The value is in the worth, not in the number.”

— Aesop

136. “Here is an Unity Quote that we have all known since school: United we stand; divided we fall.”

— Aesop

137. “Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.”

— Aesop

138. “Keep your place in life and your place will keep you.”

— Aesop

139. “The memory of a good deed lives.”

— Aesop

140. “Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.”

— Aesop

141. “Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.”

— Aesop

142. “Most arguments are useless.”

— Aesop

143. “The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.”

— Aesop

144. “Plodding wins the race.”

— Aesop

145. “He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.”

— Aesop

146. “Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.”

— Aesop

147. “No arguments will give courage to the coward.”

— Aesop

148. “God helps those who have no-cut contracts.”

— Aesop

149. “Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.”

— Aesop

150. “The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.”

— Aesop