Top 1039 Cautionary Tales Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

I loved fairy tales growing up.

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to take better care of your fellow citizens when they're down on their luck, you end up killing economic progress. But what European experience actually demonstrates is the opposite: social justice and progress can go hand in hand.

Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!

Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I didn't like it. Plus, my best friend is a walking cautionary tale of what happens to you when romantic relationships don't involve marriage. Like you always say, kafir, everything ends in breakup, divorce, or death. I want to narrow my misery options to divorce or death - that's all.

I firmly believe in real-life fairy tales.

If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor.

Tales From Topographic Oceans is like a woman's padded bra.

Dead men tell no tales, Mary.

Remember all fairy tales end at some point.

Idle man, chases after fairy tales.

If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal.

I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.

PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations.

William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told of tragedies and of people in trouble. Terence and Mark Twain told cosmic stories, Dickens told melodramatic ones, Plutarch told histories and Hans Christian Andersen told fairy tales. But Shakespeare told every kind of story – comedy, tragedy, history, melodrama, adventure, love stories and fairy tales – and each of them so well that they have become immortal. In all the world of storytelling he has become the greatest name.

Dead men tell no tales.

Tales of heroes end in bliss.

Sure, I love fairy tales.

Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds.

The sahara desert the Rapunzel the charity the gifted tales.

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

I'm sure you can even find ménage à trois in medieval tales.

He tells old wives' tales much to the point.

Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes.

Many forgotten things live still in children's tales.

If you read Grimm's fairy tales, they're absolutely terrifying.

Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.

I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales.

It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.

Tales of Tacobella' showed that I can rap.

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

How easy it is to tell tales!

I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

Fairy tales are more than true.

Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

The Snow White the midnight the moon tales of the mechanics

Legends of the Silver Stallion had been told for years now, whenever mountain stockmen met round the campfires or on the winding hill tracks. Songs were sung about him to the cattle and both songs and tales had become even stranger since his supposed death when he vanished through the wind and the night over a great cliff. Tales kept cropping up of a ghost horse seen, or imagined, roaming over the mountains at night, of stockmen waking in a hut at midnight, hearing the tremendous stallion’s cry which could only be Thowra’s

I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

Tell tales out of school.

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.