1. “The gods help them who help themselves.” – Aesop
2. “The more you want, the more you stand to lose.” – Aesop
3. “To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.” – Aesop
4. “Each person has his strong point.” – Aesop
5. “Misfortune tests the sincerity of friendship.” – Aesop
6. “Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.” – Aesop
7. “Every person, according to an ancient legend, is born into the world with two bags suspended from their neck: all bags in front full of their neighbors’ faults, and a large bag behind filled with his own faults. Hence it is that people are quick to see the faults of others, and yet are often blind to their own failings.” – Aesop
8. “Precious things are for those that can prize them.” – Aesop
9. “Acquaintance softens prejudice.” – Aesop
10. “Do nothing without regard to the consequences.” – Aesop
11. “If words suffice not, blows must follow.” – Aesop
12. “Don’t be in a hurry to change one evil for another.” – Aesop
13. “Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.” – Aesop
14. “They had then got to a bridge over the river, where.” – Aesop
15. “Pride goes before destruction.” – Aesop
16. “I don’t mind having to die now, for I see that he is the cause of my death is about to share the same fate.” – Aesop
17. “Servants don’t know a good master till they have served a worse.” – Aesop
18. “The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.” – Aesop
19. “Change of habit cannot alter Nature.” – Aesop
20. “Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.” – Aesop
21. “If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?” – Aesop
22. “Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.” – Aesop
23. “The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.” – Aesop
24. “Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.” – Aesop
25. “The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.” – Aesop
26. “The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.” – Aesop
27. “This fable shows that ornaments of the spirit are preferable to a beautiful body.” – Aesop
28. “Little by little does the trick.” – Aesop
29. “It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.” – Aesop
30. “If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.” – Aesop
31. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
32. “No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
33. “We often despise what is most useful to us.” – Aesop
34. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
35. “The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.” – Aesop
36. “Keep your place in life and your place will keep you.” – Aesop
37. “Little friends may prove great friends.” – Aesop
38. “One story sounds good until another is told.” – Aesop
39. “Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.” – Aesop
40. “Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.” – Aesop
41. “Every man for himself.” – Aesop
42. “If we really want something done, it is best to do it ourselves.” – Aesop
43. “A kindness is never wasted.” – Aesop
44. “Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.” – Aesop
45. “Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” – Aesop
46. “Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.” – Aesop
47. “Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” – Aesop
48. “Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.” – Aesop
49. “Do not tell others how to act unless you can set a good example.” – Aesop
50. “The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.” – Aesop
51. “Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.” – Aesop
52. “The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
53. “Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.” – Aesop
54. “It is useless attacking the insensible.” – Aesop
55. “Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you’re not.” – Aesop
56. “It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.” – Aesop
57. “Good things come in small packages.” – Aesop
58. “We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.” – Aesop
59. “No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth” – Aesop
60. “In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.” – Aesop
61. “A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear.” – Aesop
62. “If you attempt what is beyond your power, your trouble will be wasted and you court not only misfortune but ridicule.” – Aesop
63. “Most arguments are useless.” – Aesop
64. “Love can tame the wildest.” – Aesop
65. “If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.” – Aesop
66. “Persuasion is better than force.” – Aesop
67. “Think twice before you act.” – Aesop
68. “Time and place often give advantage to the weak over the strong.” – Aesop
69. “In a crisis, give help first and then advice.” – Aesop
70. “Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.” – Aesop
71. “Those who try to entrap others are often caught by their own schemes.” – Aesop
72. “United we stand; divided we fall.” – Aesop
73. “Kindness is more persuasive than force.” – Aesop
74. “Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.” – Aesop
75. “False confidence often leads to disaster.” – Aesop
76. “Please all, and you will please none.” – Aesop
77. “Perseverance is surer than swiftness.” – Aesop
78. “What is most truly valuable is often underrated.” – Aesop
79. “Every one is more or less master of his own fate.” – Aesop
80. “In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.” – Aesop
81. “Straw shows which way the wind is blowing.” – Aesop
82. “There is always someone worse off than yourself.” – Aesop
83. “Much wants more and loses all.” – Aesop
84. “…study yourself and try to find out if there are qualities in you which are as good as those discovered in others.” – Aesop
85. “Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another’s unhappiness.” – Aesop
86. “A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.” – Aesop
87. “Be satisfied with what you have.” – Aesop
88. “Any excuse will serve a tyrant.” – Aesop
89. “God helps those who have no-cut contracts.” – Aesop
90. “Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.” – Aesop
91. “Better no rule than cruel rule.” – Aesop
92. “If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.” – Aesop
93. “We learn from the things we suffer.” – Aesop
94. “Only cowards insult dying majesty.” – Aesop
95. “Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.” – Aesop
96. “After all is said and done, more is said than done.” – Aesop
97. “Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.” – Aesop
98. “Beware of a wolf in sheep’s clothing.” – Aesop
99. “A word in season is most precious.” – Aesop
100. “Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.” – Aesop
101. “If you are wise you won’t be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.” – Aesop
102. “No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward.” – Aesop
103. “The most dangerous enemy is the one within.” – Aesop
104. “Put your shoulder to the wheel.” – Aesop
105. “A person’s true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.” – Aesop
106. “Don’t neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.” – Aesop
107. “Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one’s nature.” – Aesop
108. “By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.” – Aesop
109. “It pays to be content with your lot.” – Aesop
110. “A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.” – Aesop
111. “Don’t make much ado about nothing.” – Aesop
112. “No plea will protect the innocent from the unjust judge.” – Aesop
113. “Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.” – Aesop
114. “It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.” – Aesop
115. “If you don’t want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity.” – Aesop
116. “The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.” – Aesop
117. “I can’t be friends with a man who blows hot and cold with the same breath.” – Aesop
118. “He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.” – Aesop
119. “All of us, the great and the little have need of each other.” – Aesop
120. “He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.” – Aesop
121. “Don’t cry over spilt milk.” – Aesop
122. “Being a good example teaches others to be good.” – Aesop
123. “Try before you trust.” – Aesop
124. “You can fool people some of the time, but you can’t fool them all of the time.” – Aesop
125. “If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.” – Aesop
126. “Like will draw like.” – Aesop
127. “It is possible to have too much of a good thing.” – Aesop
128. “Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.” – Aesop
129. “Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain.” – Aesop
130. “Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.” – Aesop
131. “Do not waste your pity on a scamp.” – Aesop
132. “A mouse is too weak to fight a lion but too strong for the cords that can holds a lion.” – Aesop
133. “Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.” – Aesop
134. “Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.” – Aesop
135. “I am sure the grapes are sour.” – Aesop
136. “You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.” – Aesop
137. “It is easy to despise what you cannot get.” – Aesop
138. “Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.” – Aesop
139. “Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.” – Aesop
140. “Fine feathers don’t make fine birds.” – Aesop
141. “It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.” – Aesop
142. “I don’t think it’s much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can’t have got any.” – Aesop
143. “Every tale is not to be believed.” – Aesop
144. “Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors’ faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.” – Aesop
145. “Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true.” – Aesop
146. “He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. ” – Aesop
147. “Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.” – Aesop
148. “Not all creatures can become as great as they think.” – Aesop
149. “No gratitude from the wicked.” – Aesop
150. “Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.” – Aesop
151. “No arguments will give courage to the coward.” – Aesop
152. “He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.” – Aesop
153. “Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.” – Aesop
154. “Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden egg.” – Aesop
155. “It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.” – Aesop
156. “No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.” – Aesop
157. “Those who suffer most cry out the least.” – Aesop
158. “Don’t go looking for trouble.” – Aesop
159. “Oh, stop! stop! I beg of you: what is sport to you is death to us.” – Aesop
160. “A fair-minded man tries to see both sides of an argument.” – Aesop
161. “Wealth not used is of no value at all.” – Aesop
162. “All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.” – Aesop
163. “Every man should be content to mind his own business.” – Aesop
164. “The memory of a good deed lives.” – Aesop
165. “In trying to please all, he had pleased none.” – Aesop
166. “A man is known by the company he keeps.” – Aesop
167. “Once a wolf, always a wolf.” – Aesop
168. “Fair weather friends are not worth much.” – Aesop
169. “He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it.” – Aesop
170. “Necessity is the mother of invention.” – Aesop
171. “There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.” – Aesop
172. “Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.” – Aesop
173. “The weak will sometimes find ways to avenge an insult, even upon the strong.” – Aesop
174. “False friends leave you in times of trouble.” – Aesop
175. “Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.” – Aesop
176. “There can be little liking where there is no likeness.” – Aesop
177. “The value is in the worth, not in the number.” – Aesop
178. “Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.” – Aesop
179. “Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.” – Aesop
180. “Wealth unused might as well not exist.” – Aesop
181. “When you hit back make sure you have got the right man.” – Aesop
182. “He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.” – Aesop
183. “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” – Aesop
184. “In the good days remember also death.” – Aesop
185. “Liars often set their own traps.” – Aesop
186. “Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.” – Aesop
187. “What’s bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.” – Aesop
188. “Example is the best precept.” – Aesop
189. “It takes great skill to do the right thing at the right time.” – Aesop