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![Fables Quotes By Bill Haywood: To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/fables-quotes-by-bill-haywood-545914.jpg "Fables Quotes By Bill Haywood: To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on")
To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.
— Bill Haywood
Somebody's been feeding the boy fables. Probably the king's niece. Humph. Nice girl. Too many romantic notions, though.
— Patrick W. Carr
Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
— Alexander Pope
We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Equals make the best friends.
— Aesop
Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.
— Johann Georg Hamann
Omnipotence is most omnipotent when one does nothing!
— Stanislaw Lem
If I could, I would live forever in this moment. But no one can live in a moment, and time moves on.
— Elora Bishop
Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon
— Voltaire
There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.
— Richard Brautigan
One writes fables in periods of oppression.
— Italo Calvino
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. Fables for Our Time, Moral of "The Owl Who Was God" (1940) — James Thurber
I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot more.
— Cobie Smulders
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
— Michel De Montaigne
Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
— Horace Mann
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
— Thomas Jefferson
Fiction or fable allures to instruction.
— Benjamin Franklin
As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.
— William Hazlitt
Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind
— Brandon Boyd
For me, Satan and a literal hell are fables born of Christianity's desire to control humanity by increasing its fear of death.
— Christopher Pike
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
One good turn deserves another.
— Petronius
Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables
— Charles Spurgeon
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Fables from before the Anaheiming.
— William Gibson
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
— Walt Disney
It's now the British Muse's fables That lie on maidens' bedside tables And haunt their dreams. They worship now The Vampire with his pensive brow,
— Alexander Pushkin
We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.
— Peter Benchley
If biscuits were stories, I'd bake a pan of piping hot fables right this second. (Bertie)
— Lisa Mantchev
Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
India, the new mytha collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God. — Salman Rushdie
What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!
— Pope Leo X
Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.
— George Washington
I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.
— Vincent Schiavelli
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I could end this with a moral,as if this were a fable about animals,
though no fables are really about animals. — Margaret Atwood
History is fables agreed upon.
— Voltaire
Remember, slow and steady wins the race.
— Ieyasu Tokugawa
How many things were articles of faith to us yesterday that are fables to us today?
— Michel De Montaigne
The bearers of fables are very welcome.
— Monique Wittig
Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
— Ambrose Bierce
A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.
— Richard Whately
The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.
— Thomas Paine
All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.
— Henry David Thoreau
![Fables Quotes By Mark Twain: [The Bible is] a mass of fables and](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/fables-quotes-by-mark-twain-8962.jpg "Fables Quotes By Mark Twain: [The Bible is] a mass of fables and")
Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.
— Joseph Addison
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
— Jean Cocteau
The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity.
— Richard Carlile
![Fables Quotes By Josephine De Beauharnais: [On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/fables-quotes-by-josephine-de-beauharnais-1200851.jpg "Fables Quotes By Josephine De Beauharnais: [On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time")
[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.
— Josephine De Beauharnais
If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood.
— Thomas Paine
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.
— Joseph Joubert
Oh this is reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied until we are brought to this.
— George Muller
The noblest study of mankind is Man, says Man.
— James Thurber
Baba Yaga: " ... What are his powers"Mirror on the wall: "He reads — Bill Willingham
Only in fables survives what cannot survive in nature. Only myths and fables do not know the limits of possibility.' Three
— Andrzej Sapkowski
The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.
— Northrop Frye
I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
— William Allen White