Aesop's Fables
Message:
Quality, Not Quantity

Aesop's Moral:
Value is in the Worth, Not the Number

Another way of saying it:
Quality, not quantity, is important.

Aesop's Fable:

A debate prevailed among the animals as to which of them deserved the most credit for producing the greatest number of babies at birth.

They came to the Lioness and said, "How many sons do you have at a birth?"

The Lioness laughed at them, and said: "Why! I have only one; but that one is the king of the beasts."

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Comment: Lioness certainly gets to the point, doesn't she? "Who cares how many children I have? My one can eat all yours."

Or, as the bumper sticker says, "My kid can beat up your honor student."

The moral actually translates as, "The value is in the worth, not the number," but, "Quality, not quantity," probably is more familiar.

Quality, not quantity - value is in the worth, not the number.

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