"The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Tortoise and the Hare"

Usage examples of fables.

It gropes among the loose records of the past, and the floating fables of the moment, to glean a few truths or falsehoods tending to prove, if they prove anything, that the persons who have passed their lives in the study of a branch of knowledge the very essence of which must always consist in long and accurate observation, are less competent to judge of new doctrines in their own department than the rest of the community.

Seeking a way to lessen the palpable tension, she rummaged through her stock of fables and, struck by an impish impulse, selected a tale.

Sindbad Nameh, a book of fables believed to be of Indian origin and produced in Persian prose in 1160-61, and the Marzuban Nameh, written about 1225.

They weave fables of a world that never was and never could be, a feeble exercise for childish minds.