Aesop's Fables PromoA collection of the classic fables includes Sour Grapes, Slow but Sure, Town Mouse and Country Mouse, and more than two hundred others. Many of these tales are so well known they have given us phrases we use every day, like dog in the manger or sour grapes, but even the rarer ones seem familiar, because their simple morals are based on universal truths. From the tortoise and the hare or the boy who cried wolf to the treacherous partridge or big and little fish, Aesop's wise and foolish creatures are a lasting delight. |
Contents
A Case for Patience | 1 |
Friend or Foe? | 2 |
Sour Grapes | 3 |
Actions Speak Louder than Words | 4 |
Fools Die for Want of Wisdom | 5 |
Dead Men Tell No Tales | 6 |
Look Before You Leap | 7 |
Cut Off Your Tails to Save My Face | 8 |
Example Is Better than Precept | 133 |
Proof Positive | 134 |
Bearding the Lion | 135 |
Beneath Notice | 136 |
The Wages of Malice | 137 |
Why the Ant Is a Thief | 138 |
Go to the Ant Thou Sluggard 1 | 139 |
Go to the Ant Thou Sluggard 2 | 140 |
The Fox and the Mask | 9 |
A Lesson for Fools | 10 |
OneWay Traffic | 11 |
Reaping Without Sowing | 12 |
Taught by Experience | 13 |
The Fox OutFoxed | 14 |
BloodSuckers | 15 |
Men and Lions | 16 |
It Is Quality Not Quantity that Counts | 17 |
Disarmed | 18 |
ThirdParty Profit | 19 |
A Bird in the Hand | 20 |
The Lions Share | 21 |
A Companion in Fear | 22 |
The Mighty Fallen | 23 |
A Respecter of Persons | 24 |
Negotiating from Weakness 1 2345678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 3233 24 | 25 |
A Plotter OutPlotted | 26 |
Misplaced Confidence | 32 |
This | 34 |
Ready for Action | 38 |
A Voice and Nothing More | 44 |
The Best Method of Defence | 56 |
A Breed of FaintHearts | 62 |
Slow but Sure | 68 |
Misplaced Confidence | 86 |
Born to Trouble 89898 | 89 |
Traitors Death | 90 |
Cherishing a Viper | 91 |
The Punishment of Selfishness | 92 |
Save Us in the Time of Trouble | 93 |
A Bad Bargain | 94 |
Feline Sophistry | 95 |
Once Bitten Twice Shy | 96 |
Villainy Unmasked | 97 |
Metamorphosis | 98 |
The Patience of Fear | 99 |
Nothing to Lose | 100 |
Hoist with Her Own Petard | 101 |
Friends Old and New | 102 |
One Thing at a Time | 103 |
A Bad Workman | 104 |
Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing | 105 |
Birds of a Feather | 106 |
Counting the Cost | 107 |
Too Clever by Half | 108 |
Asinine Pride | 109 |
An Ass in a Lions Skin 1 | 110 |
An Ass in a Lions Skin 2 | 111 |
Know Your Limitations | 112 |
Every Man to His Own Trade | 113 |
One Master as Good as Another | 114 |
Forewarned is Forearmed | 115 |
Eating the Bread of Idleness | 116 |
Reckoning Without His Host | 117 |
Things Are Not Always What They Seem | 118 |
Profiting by Experience | 119 |
Substance and Shadow | 120 |
Lost to Shame | 121 |
Turning the Tables on a Pursuer | 122 |
Not Interested | 123 |
FalseHearted Fawning | 124 |
Asleep With One Eye Open | 125 |
Incorruptible | 126 |
Dog in the Manger | 127 |
All the Difference | 128 |
Something to Squeal About | 129 |
Scamped Work | 130 |
A Person of No Importance | 131 |
Despise Not a Feeble Folk | 132 |
One Good Turn Deserves Another | 141 |
The Axe is Laid Unto the Root of the Trees | 142 |
Bowing Before the Storm | 143 |
A Fabled Flower that Fades Not | 144 |
The Gentle Art of Persuasion | 145 |
Springtime and Winter | 146 |
Easily Remedied | 147 |
Marching on the Stomach | 148 |
The Impious Huckster | 149 |
Who Art Thou that Judgest? | 150 |
What a Piece of Work Is Man | 151 |
A Rash Prayer Answered | 152 |
Dirt Cheap | 153 |
A Cartload of Mischief | 154 |
Why Giants Are Boobies | 155 |
All Lost Save Hope | 156 |
Room for Improvement | 157 |
Honesty Is the Best Policy | 158 |
The Fault Dear Brutus is Not in Our Stars but in Ourselves | 159 |
No Respite | 160 |
Why Some Men Are Loutish Brutes | 161 |
A City of Lies | 162 |
The EyeDoctor | 163 |
Incurable | 164 |
A Common Cheat | 165 |
A Warning Against Calumny | 166 |
A Prophet Without Knowledge | 167 |
Truth Turned Liar | 168 |
The Swindler | 169 |
Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child | 170 |
The Charlatan | 171 |
God Helps Those Who Help Themselves | 172 |
The Burner Burnt | 173 |
Treasure Trove | 174 |
Unity Is Strength | 175 |
A Mountain Out of a Molehill | 176 |
Mote and Beam | 177 |
A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed | 178 |
Share and Share Alike | 179 |
Much Wants More | 180 |
Where Your Treasure Is There Will Your Heart Be Also | 182 |
Seeing Is Believing | 183 |
Plucked Clean | 184 |
Blind Mans Touch | 185 |
Out of the FryingPan into the Fire | 186 |
Brave Talk | 187 |
Business First | 188 |
Hating Unto Death | 189 |
The Ungodly Increase in Riches | 190 |
Falsely Accused | 191 |
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer | 192 |
Favourable Omens | 193 |
La Forza del Destino | 194 |
An Unseasonable Reproof | 195 |
Use Is Everything | 196 |
Learning by Bitter Experience | 197 |
Crying Wolf Too Often | 198 |
A Philosophic Baldpate | 199 |
Friends Indeed | 200 |
The Riddle of a Will | 201 |
A Craven Braggart | 203 |
None So Deaf as Those That Wont Hear | 204 |
His Own Trumpeter | 206 |
Frailty Thy Name Is Woman | 207 |
Big and Little Fish | 209 |
Fishing in Troubled Waters | 210 |
Familiarity Breeds Contempt | 211 |
SelfDeception | 212 |
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