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