Aesop Quotes

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Aesop

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: greek
  • Birth: 620 BC - 564 BC

Topics

PeopleEnjoyOthersCannotGrudge

To help enable the kind of science Hubble is performing makes my life worthwhile.

John M. Grunsfeld

LifeScienceMy LifeHelpKind

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

Anita Roddick

BusinessMoneyI AmPeopleLooking

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

TruthImportantNothingMudConcrete

I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane had crashed in an impossibly remote valley of New Guinea that had been nicknamed Shangri-La.

Mitchell Zuckoff

WarMeWorldStoryNewChicago

I must have been 10 or 11, but anything Dana Carvey ever did, I just really loved. He was on for a long time, I don't really know when that era was. I could watch Dana Carvey with my parents, they loved him too. They loved all his characters.

Mindy Kaling

TimeParentsLovedLongLong Time

I give out similar advice all the time: Take a month to write down where your money is going. By the end, you'll have a road map that tells you where you can cut back.

Jean Chatzky

TimeMoneyRoadEndAdviceYou

When it's all about the work, it's clear who in the company is pulling their weight and who isn't.

Jason Fried

WorkCompanyClearWeightWhoAbout

What's the point of elections if everything is already decided?

Dmitry Medvedev

EverythingPointElectionsDecided

I have no personal agenda in whether or not a library keeps 'Whale Talk' or 'Athletic Shorts' or any of my books shelved.

Chris Crutcher

LibraryPersonalTalkWhaleBooks

I played the guitar in ninth grade. My sister's friend went on a semester abroad, and she left the guitar at our house for nine months.

David Walton

FriendSisterGuitarHouseSheLeft

It was pretty clear that I was a funny guy, just as a guy.

Chevy Chase

FunnyPrettyGuyClearJust

As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully.

Anthony Browne

ChildrenLookingBookPictureLook

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