Author: Aesop

Cited by

• Jonathan Auxier (1)
  • IN: The Night Gardener (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We would often be sorry if our wishes were granted.
    FROM: The Old Man and Death, (-525), Short Story, Ancient Greece
• M.C Beaton (1)
  • IN: Death of a Liar (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Then one day there really was a wolf, but when the boy shouted, they didn't believe him.
    FROM: The Boy Who Cried Wolf, (-525), Short Story, Greece
• Minette Walters (1)
  • IN: Fox Evil (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass entered into an agreement to assist each other in the chase. Having secured a large booty, the Lion on their return from the forest asked the Ass to allot his due portion to each of the three partners in the treaty. The Ass carefully divided the spoils into three equal shares and modestly requested the two others to make the first choice. The Lion, bursting into a great rage, devoured the Ass. Then he requested the Fox to do him the favor of making the division. The Fox accumulated all that they had killed into one large heap and left to himself the smallest possible morsel. The Lion said, "Who has taught you, my excellent fellow, the art of division? You are perfect to a fraction." He replied, "I learned it from the Ass, by witnessing his fate." Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.
    FROM: The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass, (-525), Short Story, Greece
• Erica Bauermeister (1)
  • IN: The Lost Art of Mixing (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every truth has two sides.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Steven James (1)
  • IN: The King (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A Wasp settled on the head of a snake, and not only stung him several times, but clung obstinately to the head of his victim. Maddened with paint the Snake tried every means he could think of to get rid of the creature, but without success. At last he became desperate, and crying, "Kill you I will, even at the cost of my own life," he laid his head with the Wasp on it under the wheel of a passing wagon, and they both perished together.
    FROM: Aesop's Fables (The Wasp and the Snake), (-525), [NA], Greece
• Yasmine Galenorn (1)
  • IN: Shaded Vision (2012) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL