Cervantes company you keep

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

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 Saavedra

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

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Fear has many eyes.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

But 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 Saavedra

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

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And 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 Saavedra

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the affections.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Cervantes company you keep

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

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.

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.

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the affections.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.