“There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.”
War
“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.”
GraduationAll Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
“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.”
Humor“A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”
Experience“Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.”
Music“When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.”
Art“Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.”
Experience“Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.”
War“That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.”
Nature“Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.”
Truth“Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.”
Truth“Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”
Fear“He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.”
Courage“Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”
Design“The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.”
Knowledge“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.”
Truth“To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.”
Fear“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
Power“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.”
Graduation“Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.”
Art“God bears with the wicked, but not forever.”
God