Sentence examples for remember the fable from inspiring English sources

Remember the fable of the princess and the pea.

Do you remember the fable of The Emperor's New Clothes?

Remember the   fable of the tortoise and the hare, this is a great example.

Remember the Chinese fable of the mighty emperor who agreed to give a wily supplicant one grain of rice for the first square on a chess board, double that for the second square, double again for the third and so on, before he realised that he would be giving away his whole kingdom's supply before the board was half-finished.

I remembered the Jean de La Fontaine fable in which a drunken cook mistakenly thrusts a swan instead of a duck into his stew pot, and just as he is on the verge of cooking him the swan's melodic dying-song forces the cook to open his bleary eyes ("What have I done?").

Remember the "red" biotechnologies?

Mercedes Everyone remembers the old Aesop's fable: in a race between the speedy hare and the ponderous tortoise, the hare succumbs to his own hubris and loses the race after the tortoise discovers a Mercedes factory in the woods, borrows a 2016 AMG GT S (which costs six figures), and literally runs over his opponent.

I remember Aesop's fables, and I know that the tortoise won the race.

But remember, in the classic Aesop's fable it is the plodding tortoise, and not the speedy hare, that crossed the finish line first. .

We remember Aesop's mordant fable of the goose who laid golden eggs, only to be slaughtered by a greedy farmer who wanted too much too fast and ended up with nothing.

In the wake of the scandals triggered by Mandeville's famous argument in The Fable of the Bees (a poem, it should be remembered) that the pursuit of private vice, namely greed, leads to public benefits, namely economic prosperity, a French debate about the value of luxury as a moral good erupted that drew Voltaire's pen.