Aesop Quotes

Welcome to Morganville.You'll never want to leave.And even if you do...well, you can't. Sorry about that.

You can't get away, you can't escape. You'll jump through a plate-glass window several times and end up being right back in the spider's web.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

Trapped like a trap in a trap

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't.

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

We were caught in a hell of a trap.

You can and you can't You will and you won't You'll be damned if you do You'll be damned if you don't

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

There is such a choice of difficulties, that I own myself at a loss how to determine

I'm like a caged animal sometimes. Let me yearn to breathe free.

You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

Where there is no alternative there is no problem.

If you think it's hard getting in, you should try getting out.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.

What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.

Nothing like trapping the gentlemen where they couldn't get away.

He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.

And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me away from you.