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Miguel De Cervantes
Spanish
Novelist
About the author
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Sea
#Water
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Love
#Eyes
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Nothing
#War
#Fortune
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#World
#Man
#Folly
#Despair
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Humor
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#World
#Old
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Character
#Comedy
#Fool
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Play
#Cats
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Wealth
#Possession
Thou hast seen nothing yet.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Nothing
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Recreation
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Love
#Nature
#Women
That which costs little is less valued.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Art
#Company
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Experience
Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Giants
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Love
#Absence
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Will
#Knowledge
#Vanity
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Lies
#Cowardice
#Valor
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Art
#Rome
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Law
#Motive
#Pity
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Time
#Will
#Death
Virtue is the truest nobility.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Virtue
#Nobility
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Experience
#Mother
#Maxims
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Will
#Truth
#Oil
#Water
#Falsehood
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Trout
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Will
#Truth
#Oil
#Water
#Falsehood
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#May
#Truth
#Oil
#Water
#Falsehood
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Life
#May
#Madness
#Sanity
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Action
#Hope
#Fear
#Reason
To be prepared is half the victory.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Victory
Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Comfort
'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Man
#Talking
Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Sheep
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Time
#Man
A closed mouth catches no flies.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Flies
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Promise
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#God
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Reading
#Judgment
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Victory
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Time
#Man
#Learning
#Hunger
#Weakness
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Fear
#Eyes
Fair and softly goes far.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Actions
#Sons
#Deeds
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Man
#Heaven
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Experience
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Man
#Mother
#Goal
#Diligence
#Wishes
#Fortune
#Idleness
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Ruin
#Danger
#Design
#Delay
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Reason
#May
#Terror
#Weight
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Soul
#Music
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Public
#World
#Sin
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Lies
#Cowardice
#Valor
Every man is the son of his own works.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Man
#Son
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Laziness
He had a face like a blessing.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
A person dishonored is worst than dead.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Children
#Ugly
#Mothers
#Fathers
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Power
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#World
#Virtue
#Poets
#Modesty
Man appoints, and God disappoints.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#God
#Man
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Life
#Honor
#Liberty
#Man
Jests that give pains are no jests.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Sorrow
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Discipline
#Praise
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Order
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Will
#World
#Man
#Stars
#Courage
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Right
#Wrong
#Conversation
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Friend
#Courage
#Wealth
He preaches well that lives well.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Miguel De Cervantes,
Spanish
Novelist
#Love
#Policy
#War