The ant rested her head on the grasshopper’s abdomen, and he stroked her antennae as the sun shone through his tiny window. They had sex again, took a nap, ate some fruit, and watched a movie.

The new or updated version of the fable "The Ant and the Grasshopper" begins: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

Foxes, lions, wolves, donkeys and tortoises. In Robin Waterfield’s translation of these ancient stories, animals are used to capture a distinctly human nature.

Published: Oct. 07, 2008, 1:21 p.m. By Barbara Rybolt | Independent Press Most people are familiar with the popular fable commonly attributed to Aesop, "The Ant and the Grasshopper".

Thrift is for suckers,” the Ant said as he headed out the door, leaving the Grasshopper empty-handed. Michelle Malkin is author of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild.

Although the fable, “The Ant and The Grasshopper” teaches the values of hard work and saving, fatFIRE devotees who ascribe to that strategy may be akin to ants who have saved too much without ...

The wisdom from this story is important to understand when raising a family. The fable of the grasshopper and the ant teaches us what having proactive priorities looks like.

The grasshopper spends the summer fiddling, while the ant labors under the hot sun. When winter comes, the anthill is stocked with food. And all the grasshopper has is memories of the music of summer.

Winter comes, the ant has shelter and food. The grasshopper, having neither, calls a press conference, demanding to know why the ant should be warm and well feed while others are cold and starving.

There are investment, saving and frugality lessons galore in the following three fables of The Ant and the Grasshopper, The Dog and the Bone and The Goose that Laid Golden Eggs.

The Emberleys (The Ant and the Grasshopper) reinterpret a grim, lesser-known fable about two baddies whose natures come back to bite (and sting) them.