ant and grasshopper
Worker versus idler
Ant and grasshopper refers to a parable from Aesop about an industrious ant who stores food for winter while a carefree grasshopper plays and starves when cold comes.
The fable illustrates the virtue of hard work and planning over immediate pleasure: He's the ant in our relationship; I'm definitely the grasshopper.
- fableMoral tale with animals
- insectSix-legged invertebrate
- colonyDependent territorial settlement
- summerYear's warmest season
- winterYear's coldest quarter
rainy day · lazy · industrious · harvest · fiddle · song · work · idle hands · play · hopping · crawling · wings · anthill · preparation · starvation · hard work · moral · moral lesson
- animal fablesfable, fables, beast fables, beast fable, animal fable
- cautionary talesIcarus, Prometheus, Faust, Dr. Faustus, Pandora
- fablesfable, Aesop, Aesop's fables, Aesop fables, tortoise and hare
- moral talesfable, parable, moral stories, allegory, moral fables
fable interpretation/moral lesson
ant and grasshoppertortoise and hare
Aesop's contrasting racers
lion and mouse · live for today · prodigal son · dog in the manger