“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
“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.”
ParentingAll Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
“Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.”
Best“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.”
Truth“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“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
Power“The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.”
Knowledge“Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.”
Experience“He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.”
Courage“Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.”
Music“Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.”
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.”
Graduation“Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.”
Death“When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.”
Art“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.”
Courage“Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”
Fear“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.”
Parenting“God bears with the wicked, but not forever.”
God“Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.”
Art“Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”
Design