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