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.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThere is no book so bad, said the bachelor, but something good may be found in it.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraFear has many eyes.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThere 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.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraBut my thoughts ran woolgathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraNever stand begging for what you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraHold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraTake care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraGood painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraTell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraLove not what you are, but what you may become.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThou art a cat, and rat, and a coward to boot.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraForewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraIn hell there is no retention.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraAnd the first thing I would do in my government, I would have nobody to control me, I would be absolute; and who but I: now, he that is absolute, can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes, can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure, can be content; and he that can be content, has no more to desire; so the matter's over.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraI 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 SaavedraEvery one is the son of his own works.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraCan one desire too much of a good thing?
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraAll will come out in the washing.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraEarned with the sweat of my brows.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraLet us not throw the rope after the bucket.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThat's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraAll sorrows are good (or are less) with bread.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraFor if he like a madman lived, at least he like a wise one died.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraI can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra