#fable

Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind. ↗

— Marie de France

#assured #counts #fable #his #i

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#fables #faith #held #how #many

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#better #fabled #fabulous #father #hip

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#deer #fabled #itself #over #scent

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story. ↗

— Yann Martel

#fable #moral #story #temporary

A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am. ↗

— Edmond Rostand

#affable #am #courageous #courteous #fact

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play. ↗

— Vincent Schiavelli

#directed #fables #i #italy #nine

Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#also #because #certain #character #children

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. ↗

— Irwin Edman

#logic #mandate #men #moved #myth

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#fabled #fortune #good #good fortune #labor