Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra – 22 April 1616), was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists...
understanding
It is not the hand, but the understanding of a man, that may be said to write
bad hanged house judgment man speak
It is bad judgment to speak of halters in the house of a man who was hanged
complain enjoy luck passes
Who doesn't know how to enjoy luck when it comes, should not complain when it passes him by
cowardice half lies true valor
True valor lies half way between cowardice and rashness.
art coward thou
Thou art a cat, and rat, and a coward to boot.
judge proof pudding sample small
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
begins ends fourth lightning love runs sets third tis turns walks wounds
Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes
born man ripens time
Time ripens all thing. No man is born wise.
eggs himself man tis today venture wise
Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.
bottom fortune lies mill round today top turns wheel yesterday
Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at the bottom
balancing bless cloak covers cures food god hunger inventor king levels shepherd simple weight
God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all men's thoughts, the food that cures all hunger . . . the balancing weight that levels the shepherd with the king and the simple with the wise.
patience shuffle
If that should not be, cousin, I say: patience and shuffle the cards.
hand heavy hold light neither nor punishment shall strange touch
Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
concerned essential far god himself history sacred truth
History is a sacred kind of writing, because truth is essential to it, and where truth is, there God himself is, so far as truth is concerned