Fables

Famous quotes containing the word fables:

    “Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother’s, or his brother’s brother’s God.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “My dream thou brok’st not, but continued’st it.
    Thou art so true that thoughts of thee suffice
    To make dreams truths and fables histories;
    Enter these arms, for since thou thought’st it best
    Not to dream all my dream, let’s act the rest.”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)

    “Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies.”
    —Bible: New Testament 1 Timothy 1:4.