Top 300 Aesop Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard.”

— Aesop

152. “Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.”

— Aesop

153. “Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.”

— Aesop

154. “The most dangerous enemy is the one within.”

— Aesop

155. “No plea will protect the innocent from the unjust judge.”

— Aesop

156. “Trust not your security to one who puts his own interests first.”

— Aesop

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

— Aesop

158. “When you hit back make sure you have got the right man.”

— Aesop

159. “Servants don’t know a good master till they have served a worse.”

— Aesop

160. “Change of habit cannot alter Nature.”

— Aesop

161. “If words suffice not, blows must follow.”

— Aesop

162. “Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.”

— Aesop

163. “No gratitude from the wicked.”

— Aesop

164. “A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, “What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains.””

— Aesop

165. “If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.”

— Aesop

166. “Like will draw like.”

— Aesop

167. “It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.”

— Aesop

168. “Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain.”

— Aesop

169. “Liars often set their own traps.”

— Aesop

170. “Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.”

— Aesop

171. “The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.”

— Aesop

172. “It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.”

— Aesop

173. “We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.”

— Aesop

174. “He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.”

— Aesop

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

— Aesop

176. “Better poverty without care, than riches with.”

— Aesop

177. “Wealth unused might as well not exist.”

— Aesop

178. “Better no rule than cruel rule.”

— Aesop

179. “You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.”

— Aesop

180. “Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”

— Aesop

181. “Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.”

— Aesop

182. “The more you want, the more you stand to lose.”

— Aesop

183. “The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.”

— Aesop

184. “No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward.”

— Aesop

185. “I can’t be friends with a man who blows hot and cold with the same breath.”

— Aesop

186. “What’s bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.”

— Aesop

187. “Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both.”

— Aesop

188. “We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.”

— Aesop

189. “Clumsy jesting is no joke.”

— Aesop

190. “Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one’s nature.”

— Aesop

191. “You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.”

— Aesop

192. “If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.”

— Aesop

193. “To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.”

— Aesop

194. “It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”

— Aesop

195. “Zeal should not outrun discretion.”

— Aesop

196. “Never soar aloft on an enemy’s pinions.”

— Aesop

197. “A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear.”

— Aesop

198. “Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.”

— Aesop

199. “There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.”

— Aesop

200. “He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.”

— Aesop