Ant and Grasshopper: Suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
Apple Tree and Peasant: Utility determines value.
Ass and Burdens: You may play a good card once too often.
Ass and Masters: Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Ass and Lapdog: Know your place, and be yourself..
Ass in Lionfs Skin: Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose
a fool.
Ass on Trial: A man is judged by the company he keeps.
Avaricious and Envious: Vice is its own punishment.
Bald Man and Fly: Choose your battles wisely.
Bat, Birds, and Beasts: He that is neither one thing, nor another has no friends.
Bear and Travelers: Misfortune tests friendship.
Bees and Keeper: When you hit back, make sure you have got the right man.
Belling the Cat: It is easy to propose impossible remedies.
Belly and Members: Unity is Strength.
Boy and Filberts: Do not try too much at once.
Boy Bathing: Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.
Boy and Wolf: The truth itself is not believed from one who often has deceived.
Brain of Ass: Wit always has an answer ready.
Bundle of Sticks: Unity is strength
Butcher and Customers: Prevarication amounts to perjury.
Clown and Countryman: Men often vindicate a phony and persecute the righteous.
Coal-burner and Fuller: Like will draw like.
Cock and Pearl: Precious things are for those that can prize them.
Crow and Pitcher: Necessity is the mother of invention.
Dog and Shadow: Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Dog and Wolf: Better starve free than be a fat slave.
Dog in Manger: People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
Dying Lion: Only cowards insult dying majesty.
Eagle and Arrow: We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Farmer and Sons: Treasure awaits those who work for it.
Farmer and Stork: If you choose bad friends everyone will believe that you are just like them.
Fir and Bramble: Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.
Fisher and Little Fish: A little thing in hand is worth more than a great thing in prospect.
Flea and Man: Do not waste your pity or compassion.
Fox and Cat: Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.
Fox and Crow: Do not trust flatterers.
Fox and Goat: Look before you leap.
Fox and Grapes: It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
Fox and Lion: Familiarity breeds contempt.
Fox and Mask: Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Fox and Mosquitoes: Sometimes better a familiar enemy than new.
Fox and Stork: One bad turn deserves another.
Fox without a Tail: Distrust interested advice.
Fox, Cock, and Dog: Cunning often outwits itself.
Frog and Ox: Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
Frog and Scorpion: Nature trumps logic.
Frogs and Kings: Better no rule than cruel rule.
Gnat and Bull: Donft be so full of yourself.
Gnat and Lion: Be overconfident at your peril.
Goose and Golden Eggs: Greed often overreaches itself.
Hare and Tortoise: Sure and steady wins the race.
Hare and Friends: He that has many friends has no friends.
Hares and Frogs: There is always some one worse off than you.
Herakles and Athene: Do not fester the discordant.
Herakles and Carter: God helps those that help themselves.
Hermes and Woodsman: Honesty is the best policy.
Horse and Ass: Better humble security than gilded danger.
Horse and Groom: Truth comes out.
Horse, Hunter, and Stag: Revenge comes at a price.
Jay and Peacock: It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Kid on Housetop: It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Lark and Farmer: Men take good care of their own private property.
Lion and Mouse: Little friends may prove useful.
Lion and Statue: We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.
Lion and Three Bulls: The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.
Lion in Love: Love can tame the wildest beast.
Lion, Fox, and Ass: Fortunate is he who learns from the misfortunes of others.
Lion, Beasts, and Fox: It is easier to get into trouble than out of it.
Man and Nightingale
Man and Two Sweethearts: Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.
Man and Satyr: Explanations are sometimes better left unsaid.
Man, Boy, and Donkey: Please all, and you will please none.
Milkmaid and Pail: Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Miser and Gold: Wealth unused might as well not exist.
Mountains in Labor: Much outcry, little outcome.
Nurse and Wolf: Enemies' promises are made to be broken.
Oak and Reeds: Compromise often brings safety.
Old Man and Death: We would often be sorry if our wishes came true.
Old Woman and Wine Jar: Sweet memories are a great pleasure.
Peacock and Hera: Be satisfied with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Robber and Two Soldiers: Actions speak louder than words.
Serpent and File: It is useless attacking the insensible.
Spendthrift and Swallow: One swallow does not make summer.
Stag at Pool: We often despise what is most useful to us.
Stag in Ox Stall: Nothing escapes the master's eye.
Stag with One Eye: Misfortune often comes from an unexpected quarter.
Swallow and Birds: Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow to be your ruin.
Tortoise and Birds: Never soar aloft in an enemy's grip.
Town Mouse and Country Mouse: Better beans and bacon in peace than cake and beer in fear.
Trees and Ax: Those who sacrifice the rights of others deserve to lose their own rights and often do.
Trumpeter taken Prisoner: Words may be deeds.
Two Crabs: Example is the best instruction.
Two Pots: The strong and weak cannot keep company.
Widow and Sheep: The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.
Wind and Sun: Persuasion can be better than force.
Wolf and Crane: Gratitude and greed do not go together.
Wolf and Lamb: Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Wolf in Sheepfs Clothing: Appearances can be deceiving.
Woodsman and Serpent: No gratitude from the wicked.
Young Thief and Mother: Train a child in the way he should go, and he will
not depart from the path.