fable quotes

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.