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One man is no more than another if he does no more than another


Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Bear in mind, Sancho, that one man is no more than another, unless he does more than another.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saav...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) No one point is more important than another.
JEFF SHAFFER No-one loves another
More than he loves whatever
another within may have
That is pa...
FERNANDO PESSOA Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more ...
MADELINE MILLER One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN No Human Being can be more Human than another Human Being.
MAYA ANGELOU No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable di...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable di...
SENECA All Florida votes are equal, your honor, and no vote is more equal than another.
FRANK MYERS To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one anot...
JOHN C. MAXWELL The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
NAPOLEON HILL Bill has a great way of communicating. No one believes more in this than he does. No one wants to su...
JOSH GOTTHEIMER He that has more knowledge than judgement, is made for another man's use more than his own.
WILLIAM PENN When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also go...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness
SYLVIA PLATH What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness
SYLVIA PLATH Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he alre...
RENE DESCARTES Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he alre...
DESCARTES Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he alre...
RENE DESCARTES There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can
HENRY FORD There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone ...
ALAN LOY MCGINNIS No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JOHNSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JONSON There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another tha...
MITCH ALBOM No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
BRYANT H. MCGILL No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
BRYANT MCGILL He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more lea...
WILL ROGERS He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No one person knows much more about writing than another. I expect that when people think they know ...
WILLA SIBERT CATHER No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with...
ADAM SMITH DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more object...
AMBROSE BIERCE There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
HENRY FORD No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Each soul has its own note to sing in the divine chorus and no voice is more important than another....
PREM PRAKASH 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 The whole soul is in the whole body, in the bones and in the veins and in the heart; it is no more p...
GIORDANO BRUNO A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.
SIMONIDES Life is richer than poverty; don’t let poverty give you another definition of life! Life is better...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE God hath thus ordered it, that we may learn to bear one another’s burdens; for no man is without f...
THOMAS à KEMPIS There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can con...
JAMES R. SMITH A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
POPE JOHN XXIII O, great wise man,' she said, 'I have been wondering so many things. Is life more than sitting at ho...
LEMONY SNICKET No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
FAY WELDON No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction
DEMETRIUS PHALERENS No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction
DEMETRIUS PHALERENS No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction
FAY WELDON There is no pity for a man who moans about living in one town and does not move to another.
THE TALMUD I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with anothe...
ADAM SMITH The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one or...
MORTON FELDMAN While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw—...
MARTIN AMIS The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drun...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true,...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE In the entire country, there is no better Supreme Court advocate than Miguel Estrada.
JAY JORGENSEN Woman understand children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know....
HELEN KELLER Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagn...
ADLAI STEVENSON A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
ANONYMOUS Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and o...
JAN HUS There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.
JASMINE GUY No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
CHANNING POLLOCK No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
CHANNING POLLOCK No one is more carnal than a recent virgin
JOHN STEINBECK There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one...
FRANK ZAPPA Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than anothe...
JOHANN LAMONT A woman should say: ''Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me ...
BARBARA CARTLAND A woman should say: Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me be...
BARBARA CARTLAND A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
PHILLIPS BROOKS A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
PHILLIP BROOKS No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect mor...
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drun...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: ...
PLINY THE ELDER (CAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS) He does it all the time. It makes no difference to him. It's just another game, only this one means ...
OLLIE GOULSTON Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you k...
HELEN KELLER They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE No one was more surprised than me,
DAVID BALTIMORE A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserabl...
JOHN STUART MILL He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. -Much Ado ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no o...
MAXIM GORKY It's more of a mindset than anything. Rural means people willing to help one another.
FRED SMITH The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.
BILLY CRYSTAL Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmun...
JOHN BURROUGHS You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but th...
POLLY HORVATH No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
WILLIAM FAULKNER ...no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

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Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.) [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida...
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CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Soul of fibre and heart of oak. [Sp., Alma de esparto y corazon de encina.]
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CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. [Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien p...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I s...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and w...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) All will come out in the washing. [Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The pen is the tongue of the mind. [Sp., La pluma es lengua del alma.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Within a stone's throw of it.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society. [Sp., Las necedades del rico por se...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. [Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son m...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Fear has many eyes. [Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) He had a face like a benediction (blessing).
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) In hell there is no retention. [Sp., Quien ha infierene nula es retencio.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. [Sp., Como el hace...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) He who sings frightens away his ills. [Sp., Quien canta, sus males espanta.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) It will be seen in the frying of the eggs. [Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The pitcher goes so often to the fountain (that if gets broken). [Sp., Tantas veces va el cantaril...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) To Rome for everything. [Sp., Y a Roma pro todo.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) When you are at Rome, do as you see. [Sp., Cuando a Roma fueres, haz como vieres.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) A man prepared has half fought the battle. [Sp., Hombre apercebido medio combatido.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I have other fish to fry.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Honesty is the best policy.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Make hay while the sun shines.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The more thou stir it the worse it will be.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Let the worst come to the worst.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA God who sends the wound sends the medicine. [Sp., Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) As ill-luck would have it.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to bet...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Heaven's help is better than early rising.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) God helps everyone with what is his own. [Sp., Ayude Dios con lo suyo a cada uno.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) More knave than fool.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. [Sp., Mas acompanados y panigu...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I have other fish to fry.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while h...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly so...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) One swallow alone does not make the summer. [Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Make hay while the sun shines.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Thank you for nothing.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Earned with the sweat of my brows.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The rather since every man is the son of his own works. [Sp., Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo de s...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) This peck of troubles.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man fo...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! it covers a man all over, thought...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Can one desire too much of a good thing?
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach. [Sp., Tripas llevan corazon, que no ...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Hunger is the best sauce in the world. [Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can ...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) All that glisters is not gold.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging the...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Delay always heeds danger.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Too much sanity may be madness
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Jests that give pains are no jests
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA There's a remedy for everything except death
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Absence, that common cure of love.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA He who sings scares away his woes
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unre...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Love not what you are, but what you may become.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Limpias, pues, sus armas, hecho del morrión celada, puesto nombre a su rocín y confirmándose a s�...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA ...if the verses are for a literary competition, your grace should try to win second place; first is...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA By God and upon my conscience", said the devil, "I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with s...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Bear in mind, Sancho, that one man is no more than another, unless he does more than another.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Hasta la muerte, todo es vida.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I don't see what my arse has to do with enchantings!
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than ha...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA 'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail o...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Thou hast seen nothing yet.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA A stout heart breaks bad luck
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Te...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won he...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Poetry, good sir, in my opinion, is like a tender virgin, very young, and extremely beautiful, whom ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wis...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA By the street of By and By, one arrives at the house of Never
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA 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 SAAVEDRA Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The pen is the tongue of the mind.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and natural...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Fair and softly goes far.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above wat...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above wat...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does ab...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA La buena y verdadera amistad no puede ni debe ser sospechosa de nada.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Trying to stop slanderers' tongues is like trying to put gates to the open plain.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA He who sings scares away his woes.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Man appoints, and God disappoints.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA There is no book so bad, said the bachelor, but something good may be found in it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA But my thoughts ran woolgathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he wa...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA It is bad judgment to speak of halters in the house of a man who was hanged
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA 'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itsel...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wi...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Honesty's the best policy
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA As much is lost by a card too many as a card too few
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Be slow of tongue and quick of eye
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA If that should not be, cousin, I say: patience and shuffle the cards.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Thou art a cat, and rat, and a coward to boot.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The reputation of a woman may be compared to a mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The sage left nothing in his ink-horn.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA For if he like a madman lived, at least he like a wise one died.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Oh, sir, sir, there are more tricks done in the village than make a noise - saving her ladyship's pr...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA He has an oar in every man's boat and a finger in every pie
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The Knight of the Sad Countenance.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage lose...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revi...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA 'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''there were but two families in the world, have-much and ha...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA El ver mucho y leer mucho aviva los ingenios de los hombres.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juic...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Time ripens all thing. No man is born wise.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA He who sings frightens away his ills.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA There is a strange charm in the hope of a good legacy that wonderfully reduces the sorrow people oth...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at th...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another;...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not ca...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I know who I am, and I know too that I am capable of being not only the characters I have named, but...
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