Very good

Very true

The Dog in the Manger ~ Aesop Fable

A Dog looking out for its afternoon nap jumped into the Manger
of an Ox and lay there cosily upon the straw. But soon the Ox,
returning from its afternoon work, came up to the Manger and
wanted to eat some of the straw. The Dog in a rage, being
awakened from its slumber, stood up and barked at the Ox, and
whenever it came near attempted to bite it. At last the Ox had to
give up the hope of getting at the straw, and went away muttering:

"Ah, people often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."

That dog would have been sorry if I was the Ox.
Then the moral of the story would be:
"Don't take on more than you can handle.....unless you don't mind being crushed by a 500 pound ox."

The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs ~ Aesop


A man and his wife had the good fortune to possess a goose which laid a golden egg every day. Lucky though they were, they soon began to think they were not getting rich fast enough, and, imagining the bird must be made of gold inside, they decided to kill it in order to secure the whole store of precious metal at once. But when they cut it open they found it was just like any other goose. Thus, they neither got rich all at once, as they had hoped, nor enjoyed any longer the daily addition to their wealth.

by Janet S. Krueger

A long time ago in the land of Snoo
There once lived a boy whom everyone knew.
He was nearly perfect except for one flaw:
He would get jealous of all that he saw.
This happened so often it became routine
For his deep blue eyes to turn a bright green.
The people of Snoo always teased and made fun
Of his bright green eyes and forced him to run.
Tired of being the town's laughing stock
He asked his mother to please stop the mock.
She sat him right down and spoke gentle but stern
"The teasing will stop when you finally learn
To be content with who you happen to be
And stop being jealous of each person you see.
Then your eyes will remain a deep blue
And you'll look like everyone else in Snoo."

Moral: Envy of others always shows. ~ Aesop

Ack... I have green eyes! lol

AN EAGLE and a Fox formed an intimate friendship and decided to
live near each other. The Eagle built her nest in the branches
of a tall tree, while the Fox crept into the underwood and there
produced her young. Not long after they had agreed upon this
plan, the Eagle, being in want of provision for her young ones,
swooped down while the Fox was out, seized upon one of the little
cubs, and feasted herself and her brood. The Fox on her return,
discovered what had happened, but was less grieved for the death
of her young than for her inability to avenge them. A just
retribution, however, quickly fell upon the Eagle. While
hovering near an altar, on which some villagers were sacrificing
a goat, she suddenly seized a piece of the flesh, and carried it,
along with a burning cinder, to her nest. A strong breeze soon
fanned the spark into a flame, and the eaglets, as yet unfledged
and helpless, were roasted in their nest and dropped down dead at
the bottom of the tree. There, in the sight of the Eagle, the
Fox gobbled them up.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

The Widow And Her Little Maidens ~ Aesop Fable

A WIDOW who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow. The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill The Rooster who roused their mistress so early. When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles, for their mistress, no longer hearing the hour from The Rooster, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.

The !!! Carrying the Image ~ Aesop Fable

AN !!! once carried through the streets of a city a famous wooden Image, to be placed in one of its Temples. As he passed along, the crowd made lowly prostration before the Image. The !!!, thinking that they bowed their heads in token of respect for himself, bristled up with pride, gave himself airs, and refused to move another step. The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid his whip lustily about his shoulders and said, "O you perverse dull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to an !!!."

They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others.