“Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.”

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

“Precious things are for those that can prize them.”

“Do not count your chickens before they are hatched”

“Try before you trust.”

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

“Zeal should not outrun discretion.”

“Fair weather friends are not worth much.”

“Only cowards insult dying majesty.”

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

“One story is good, till another is told.”

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

“Change of habit cannot alter Nature.”

“Who acts in haste repents at leisure.”

“Persuasion is often more effectual than force.”

“and consequently you are destroyed; while we, on the contrary, bend before the least breath of air, and therefore remain unbroken.”

“Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.”

“Any excuse will serve a tyrant”

“We may often be of more consequence in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbors.”

“Always stop to think whether your fun may not be the cause of another’s unhappiness.”

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

“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”

“Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.”

“The North Wind and the Sun”

“He that has many friends, has no friends.”

“If words suffice not, blows must follow.”

“it, for numbers of Rooks and starlings”

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

“There was once a Charcoal-burner who lived and worked by himself. A Fuller, however, happened to come and settle in the same neighbourhood; and the Charcoal-burner, having made his acquaintance and finding he was”

“Not all creatures can become as great as they think.”

“It takes great skill to do the right thing at the right time.”

“A Man and a Lion were discussing the relative strength of men and lions in general. The Man contended that he and his fellows were stronger than lions by reason of their greater intelligence. "Come now with me," he cried, "and I will soon prove that I am right." So he took him into the public gardens and showed him a statue of Hercules overcoming the Lion and tearing his mouth in two. "That is all very well," said the Lion, "but proves nothing, for it was a man who made the statue." We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.”

“Having tasted the honeycomb, he threw down his axe, and looking on the tree as sacred, took great care of it.”

“It is easy to propose impossible remedies." The”

“Tut, man, don't sprawl there. Get up and put your shoulder to the wheel.”

“exclaimed, "O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.”

“Don’t take it so much to heart, my friend; put a brick into the hole, and take a look at it every day: you won’t be any worse off than before, for even when you had your gold it was of no earthly use to you.”

“THE WOLF AND THE LAMB A Wolf came upon a Lamb straying from the flock,”

“Lean Freedom is Better than Fat Slavery "

“We may often be of more consequence in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbours.”

“Misfortune tests the sincerity of friendship.”

“Evil wishes, like fowls, come home to roost.”

“The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.”

“The covetous are poor givers.”

“Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.”

“We tend to underestimate the small things about ourselves that are often our most valuable attributes.”

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

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

“Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.”

“they were, they soon began to think they were not getting rich fast enough, and, imagining the bird must be made of gold inside, they decided to kill it in order to secure the”