Aesop Quotes

It's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot. Just don't reload the gun.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves.

I'm sure there have been a lot of boys I've chased over the years that has been fueled by alcohol and stupidity. But that's kind of how things happen - sometimes you have to do something really stupid, and sometimes it works out, and sometimes you fall flat on your face.

The Arms used by the Indians in War were formerly a Bow and Arrow with a Stone Axe and Mallet, but now they get from our People Guns, Swords, Iron Axes and Mallets.

A weapon is an enemy even to its owner.

I wish for an America no less alert in guarding against dangers from within than it is watchful against enemies from without.

A security program where everything that is technical possible is done, undermines trust and in the long run produces less security.

The concept of 'Bad Magic' is something that is incredibly intoxicating and magical but ultimately bad for you.

When I was at my most outrageous and destructive, I alienated almost everybody.

The hole I've dug for myself is very big.

Charismatic leaders who lead you off cliff's would be better off for everyone if they were not charismatic leaders.

Israel must win every single war that it fights. Our enemies only have to win one war.

I don't think through anything I do. I just do it, and it's oftentimes landed me in huge amounts of trouble.

Watching well-meaning authors follow in the footsteps of someone going in the wrong direction breaks my heart.

If you knew what you were doing, that it would hinder you, you wouldn't do it.

Our biggest risk is ourselves.

We can all be self-destructive. I make terrible choices all the time. It's uncomfortable to admit that you did a thing that was selfish and that you knew would hurt someone else.

I see these college kids taking these crazy shots, and it's like, taking that shot is going to leave you without a job. You're not Steph Curry.

I always told guys you don't date people you work with, it's not going to work. I said it for years and then I broke my own motto.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.