The Tortoise and the Hare
A Hare insulted a Tortoise upon account of his slowness, and vainly boasted of her own great speed in running. “Let us have a match,” replied the Tortoise. “I will run with you five miles, and the fox yonder shall be the umpire of the race.” The Hare agreed; and away they both started together. But the Hare, by reason of her exceeding swiftness, outran the Tortoise to such a degree, that she made a jest of the matter; and, finding herself a little tired, settled into a tuft of fern that grew by the way, and took a nap; thinking that, if the Tortoise went by, she could at any time catch up with him with all the ease imaginable. In the meantime, while the Tortoise came jogging along with slow but persistent effort, the Hare, out of a too great a feeling of superiority and confidence of victory, overslept, and the Tortoise arrived at the end of the race first.
The moral of the story is, slow and steady wins the race, while bragging and slacking loses the race.
attributed to 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, and is 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.
A Hare insulted a Tortoise upon account of his slowness, and vainly boasted of her own great speed in running. “Let us have a match,” replied the Tortoise. “I will run with you five miles, and the fox yonder shall be the umpire of the race.” The Hare agreed; and away they both started together. But the Hare, by reason of her exceeding swiftness, outran the Tortoise to such a degree, that she made a jest of the matter; and, finding herself a little tired, settled into a tuft of fern that grew by the way, and took a nap; thinking that, if the Tortoise went by, she could at any time catch up with him with all the ease imaginable. In the meantime, while the Tortoise came jogging along with slow but persistent effort, the Hare, out of a too great a feeling of superiority and confidence of victory, overslept, and the Tortoise arrived at the end of the race first.
The moral of the story is, slow and steady wins the race, while bragging and slacking loses the race.
attributed to 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, and is 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.
