The Fox and the Grapes
One hot Summer day, a Fox was strolling through an orchard. Upon coming to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine, which had been trained over a lofty branch, he thought to himself, “Those grapes are just the thing to quench my thirst.” Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he tried to reach the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: “I am sure they are sour.”
Moral, or lesson, of the story: One can all too easily console oneself by despising that which one cannot obtain without greater effort or ingenuity.
by Aesop
Aesop may or may not have been an actual person. If real, he would have been born in about 620 B.C.E. He would have been a fabulist, or storyteller, credited with a number of works known collectively as “Aesop’s Fables.” In some of the stories, animals possess human characteristics, such as the ability to speak or have jobs. Aesop would have passed on at about 56 years of age in about 564 B.C.E.
One hot Summer day, a Fox was strolling through an orchard. Upon coming to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine, which had been trained over a lofty branch, he thought to himself, “Those grapes are just the thing to quench my thirst.” Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he tried to reach the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: “I am sure they are sour.”
Moral, or lesson, of the story: One can all too easily console oneself by despising that which one cannot obtain without greater effort or ingenuity.
by Aesop
Aesop may or may not have been an actual person. If real, he would have been born in about 620 B.C.E. He would have been a fabulist, or storyteller, credited with a number of works known collectively as “Aesop’s Fables.” In some of the stories, animals possess human characteristics, such as the ability to speak or have jobs. Aesop would have passed on at about 56 years of age in about 564 B.C.E.
