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Sadistic is the only word to use for some of these shows.
JEFFREY SCONCE I use a lot of different words for God - infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal ...
ALEX GREY People like to use the word 'ugly' in big defensive games. But these two teams play hard physically.
MATT SGAMBATI These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to h...
DEREK JARMAN These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to h...
DEREK JARMAN Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use m...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER We want to establish some sense of normalcy, if we can use that word, in these peoples' lives.
MIKE MONTGOMERY These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going ...
DEREK JARMAN I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of pe...
CHAIM POTOK The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
SHERI S. TEPPER I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a littl...
HARLAN COBEN They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saav...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Why do some people feel offended by the word shit, but not by the word poop? Because some little old...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.
SCOTT LYNCH Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its...
MARK TWAIN Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in it...
MARK TWAIN It's confusing to use two systems _ even for rocket scientists.
LORELLE YOUNG There are plenty of things that are wrong. Marxists used to use the term "false consciousness," whic...
THOMAS DEKKER Why do some people feel offended by the word shit, but not by the word poop? Because some little old...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY No one wants to use 'national unity' anymore because it was used for years by the government to deny...
HOSSAM BAHGAT My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people ...
EVA ZEISEL I feel safe for the most part, but it is kind of alarming that people is shooting other people and s...
LARRY JACKSON Most English people are horrified that I use soap, but I like it - it works for my skin. I try diffe...
MARIE HELVIN These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
JIM SENSENBRENNER I hate to use the word crisis, but there is certainly potential for real supply tightness,
TOM BENTZ I use the word totally too much. I need to change it up and use a word that is different but has the...
MITCH HEDBERG Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devi...
STEVE CASE One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Magic is the word illiterates use for phenomena they can’t explain.
T.K. KISER I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no...
MICK ROCK I never use the word "nation" in speaking of the United States. I always use the word "Union" or "...
JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.
SHANNON L. ALDER People don't know how to use styles; people don't know how to use the table of contents creation fea...
CARL YOUNG Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he...
LEE GUTKIND Some of the water system is up and running, but they haven't gotten water to a point to where the cu...
FREDDIE DEBOSE Let's use some codes every word which isn't there or sound some kind non-sense, let's put it a code ...
DEYTH BANGER Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad ...
ADAM MANSBACH Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - a...
KAREL CAPEK We use the word ‘LOVE’ for camouflaging so many of our emotions. Why can’t we use different wo...
ANURAG SHOURIE Some people use power, whilst they are some who let power use them.
MOFFAT MACHINGURA A successful person will never use the word ‘no’, ‘I cannot’ or ‘it is impossible
SUNDAY ADELAJA PHP is getting a hell of a lot more use these days. This reflects the importance of it for a company...
BOLA ROTIBI Most people's problem is they have a brain but don't use it, the problem with big brained people is ...
KEN O. ELDIB Conscience is but a word that cowards use, / Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
MAE JEMISON It is undeniable that these women were healthy before the use of (RU-486) and became very sick or di...
DONNA HARRISON We’re all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hole in our ...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement i...
HJALMAR SCHACHT One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctan...
JIMMY STEWART People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days i...
WALT DISNEY There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to...
DAMON LINDELOF Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but th...
PAOLO GENTILONI The pauses, the silences. That demonstrates and illustrates the most important thing that makes this...
BRIAN MCNAMARA The pauses, the silences. That demonstrates and illustrates the most important thing that makes this...
BRIAN MCNAMARA The pauses, the silences. That demonstrates and illustrates the most important thing that makes this...
BRIAN MCNAMARA Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. ELIOT Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T.S. ELIOT I hope we can use the momentum from the weekend, but three days is a long time for softball.
DEANNA GUMPF The most important thing is for us to use the advantage we have properly and our success will be mat...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Most people only use their griddles for pancakes, but you can sear vegetables like sliced zucchini o...
JOSE ANDRES I've been told that I have a lot of energy. The secret is that I use renewable resources. Some days ...
BILL RICHARDSON Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it...
STEPHEN FRY They can use these skills for anything, whether they farm or not.
AMANDA COOPER Love is a confusing thing. Most people treat it like a drug. Alot of people will do some outrageous ...
MARY PITTMAN 'Alarming' is a conservative word to use.
CARLTON DUFRECHOU Scared is not a word I use.
ERIC MANGINI God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out, ... The most dang...
RICK WARREN There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of ...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Do not use a single word to explain the meanings of statements or statements made meaningfully examp...
APURVA GAGLANI Don't use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native word lies.
HENRIK IBSEN For Active Explorers, 52% say internet advertising and 49% say email advertising are the most influe...
JOE PILOTTA Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about thei...
CLAIRE [But it doesn't end there.] Guests will pay more for food and beverage and the use of fitness facili...
BJORN HANSON I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn't exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and ...
VIV ALBERTINE When people talk about the links between Iraq, Afghanistan or Palestine and what has happened, yes i...
TONY BLAIR We recognize that people use different methods for communication and certainly most of the time the ...
ED COGSWELL The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the mo...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishi...
CHAD HARBACH The length of exposure is a critical issue in these cases. The scientific evidence on causation is s...
HOWARD ERICHSON I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn...
BRUCE NAUMAN You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single mos...
F. SIONIL JOSE I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT We will use our marketing plan to help get the word out to women who need these resources.
MARILYN MONTROSS Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
HENRIK IBSEN I used to catch enough in three or four days for a month. These days, you pull your heart and soul t...
HARRY ALLEN God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerou...
RICK WARREN The thing that shocks people... is that I mean what I say. I don't use hyperbole.
NEWT GINGRICH I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use... I prefer the word "unethical."
IVAN BOESKY The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
EDWIN LAND I would call this a unique opportunity for people who want to use the property for 60 or 90 days a y...
CAMILO AGUIRRE But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually...
DAVID BOHM The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or do...
CHARLES IVES You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the w...
CUTHBERT SOUP It?s weird! Surreal is the word I would use.
GARY LOVEMAN The president is even running it on his computer. This program is really CPU intensive and most of t...
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MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES To be prepared is half the victory.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays t...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
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MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his bod...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death ...
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Jests that give pains are no jests.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revi...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear,...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without governmen...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Man appoints, and God disappoints.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than hi...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than ju...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compar...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Eat not garlic nor onions, lest they find out thy boorish origin by the smell; walk slowly and speak...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Fair and softly goes far.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts a...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these boo...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES That which costs little is less valued.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES He preaches well that lives well.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, There were but two families in the world, have-much and have...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd le...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrous...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Miracle me no miracles.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A person dishonored is worst than dead.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and natural...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO He had a face like a blessing.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The eyes those silent tongues of love.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Absence -- that common cure of love.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Faint heart never won fair lady.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from ...
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as g...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Absence, that common cure of love.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with anot...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
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MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothe...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how y...
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Virtue is the truest nobility.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unre...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek so...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
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MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging the...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is s...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothe...
MIGUEL DE UNANIMO To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Facts are the enemy of truth.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does ab...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Short sentences drawn from long experiences.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by h...
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wis...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Every man is the son of his own works.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the oth...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphab...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO It is sad not to be loved but it is much sadder not to be able to love
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO No os quepais en el cerebro lo que os puede caber en el bolsillo. Y al contrario, ¡no os quepais en...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO To awaken the sleeping and rouse the loitering is a work of supreme mercy, and to seek the truth in ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO The vanity of the passing world and love are the two fundamental and heart-penetrating notes of true...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Science is a cemetery of dead ideas
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and the goal of a good intention was never reached through ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn f...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to f...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Cásate con la mujer que te quiera, aunque no la quieras tú. Es mejor casarte para que le conquiste...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO ¿Y qué es amor? ¿Quién definió el amor? Amor definido deja de serlo...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is i...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO 'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail o...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO And wherefore do you want to be immortal? you ask me, wherefore? Frankly, I do not understand the qu...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO though it don't make you laugh outright, it may chance to make ye draw in your Lips, and shew your T...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES