Moral Lessons Gifts

Aesop's Fables - The Lion and the Mouse

Ethics exam cheater.

No one has ever been accused of choosing bad relatives.

"I throw this ball, you go get it and bring it back — everything else will fall into place."

'I'm a vegetarian.' - 'If it's so wrong to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?'

The Gospel According To Jane Brody"Orange, come in. Apple, come in. Hey you, frankfurter, hold it right there."

"Ma, what does 'kosher' mean?"

"Your momma lied to you, boy."

"Son, the world is full of disappointments. About 7.7 billion of them."

'How much stuff can I get away with and still go to heaven?'

"I learned one thing today. Attitude trumps aptitude!"

"Well, I'm just saying, buying me a cheap used car for graduation is not going to teach me responsibility."

Nun Binning the Devil

"There may be a moral equivalent of war, but, by God, there is not moral equivalent of money."

"Leave it you guys! We have this EVERY-SINGLE-TIME we go anywhere!!"

"It's my conscience... It's all achy"

'Took calcium supplements for years without paying for them.'

" It was a jungle out there, but I quite liked it."

'It's time you learned, son - in-laws and outlaws aren't necessarily opposites.'

"Hello Mr. Wibley. I haven't seen you in church lately!"

"You're six years old and I'm your mother! - I'm SUPPOSED to impose my moral standards on you!"

A happy poor man is given money by a rich man and is no longer happy.

"Do you know the biggest thing I've learned in my thirty nine years?"

"Baldo, credit cards are a terrible idea! Take it from someone who has 10 of 'em."

Moses and the Three Wise Monkeys

"Boy, the Reverend sure has your number."

Ready for the curves life throws at you.

'What you're asking me to do goes against my principles. I'll have to charge extra for that.'

'It's tough doing what's right when you see what's left.'

"What do you mean, 'There can be no ethics without fear of God'?! Look at me - all ethical and shit!"

Bothers my conscience a little bit/May keep me up for a night or two/Am I really stooping this low?

"Naughty? Nice? It's a bit more nuanced than that..."

The tortoise and the hare - Aesop's fables.

People with anything valuable to say rarely become orators.

'Mr.Shumway here is our visiting ethicist.'