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Quotes from Aesop’s Fables and Sayings

Here’s more quotes from the commonplace notebook this time from Aesop’s Fables.

I was experimenting with hand lettering and translating that into digital design and I wanted to use some good quotes from living books. I thought I would work on lettering layouts with Aesop’s quotes.

You can find Aesop’s fables free online at Project Gutenberg.

Sayings

You can use these in copywork as well as in your commonplace notebook.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Look before you leap.
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
Pride goes before destruction.
It shows an evil disposition to take advantage of a friend in distress.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Counsel without help is useless.

Additional Quotes from Aesop

Here’s more that I found:

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.
In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
Birds of a feather flock together.
The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.
Fair weather friends are not worth much.
Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid.
He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others.
Do not attempt too much at once.
Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.
Example is more powerful than precept.
Better poverty without care, than riches with.
Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.
He is not to be trusted as a friend who mistreats his own family.
Count the cost before you commit yourselves.
It is easy to kick a man that is down.
Persuasion is better than Force.
The safeguards of virtue are hateful to those with evil intentions.
Some men underrate their best blessings.