“We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.”

— Aesop, The Old Man and Death

About Aesop

Storyteller traditionally credited with a collection of Greek fables, said to have lived in the 6th century BCE.

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”

“Any excuse will serve a tyrant.”

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

“Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.”

“It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.”

“Tell me not, in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream!”

“I had a dream, which was not all a dream.”

“The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.”