Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 – 23 April 1616), was a Spanish novelist, poet and playwright. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, or Don Quijote de la Mancha, which is considered by many to be the first modern novel, one of the greatest works in Western literature, and the greatest of the Spanish language.

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.

There is no book so bad, said the bachelor, but something good may be found in it.

Fear has many eyes.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

But my thoughts ran woolgathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.

Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

Thou art a cat, and rat, and a coward to boot.

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

In hell there is no retention.

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.

Every one is the son of his own works.

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

All will come out in the washing.

Earned with the sweat of my brows.

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.

That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread.

For if he like a madman lived, at least he like a wise one died.

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.