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Fable . Fable is love's native world, is fain to dwell among fairies and talismans, and to believe in gods, being herself divine. - Die Fabel ist der Liebe Heimatwelt, / Gern wohnt sie unter Feen, Talismanen, / Glaubt gern an Götter, weil sie göttlich ist {Schiller.}
Fable . Giant Antæus in the fable acquired new strength every time he touched the earth; so some brave minds gain fresh energy from that which depresses and crushes others. {Murphy.}
Fable . He who covets what is another's, deservedly loses what is his own. (Moral of the fable of the dog and the shadow.) - Amittit merito proprium, qui alienum appetit {Phædrus.}
Fable . History is but a fable agreed on. {Napoleon.}
Fable . Read my little fable: / He that runs may read. / Most can raise the flowers now, / For all have got the seed. {Tennyson.}
Fable . The gods of fable are the shining moments of great men. {Emerson.}
Fable . The recording angel, consider it well, is no fable, but the truest of truths; the paper tablets thou canst burn; of the 'iron leaf' there is no burning. {Carlyle.}
Fable . To gain what is fit ye're able, / If ye in faith can but excel; / Such are the myths of fable, / If ye have observed them well. {Goethe.}
Face . , , is not afraid to show its face. - Credit keeps the crown o' the causey {i.e.}
Face . A big nose never disfigured a handsome face, , it is disfigured already. - Jamais long nez n'a gâté beau visage {i.e.}
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