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...
artful
The most artful part in a play,may is the fool's
card few lost
As much is lost by a card too many as a card too few
understanding
It is not the hand, but the understanding of a man, that may be said to write
giants
Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
patience shuffle
If that should not be, cousin, I say: patience and shuffle the cards.
divinity lives preaches understand
He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand
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.
alone eyes sharp
I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.
families grandma
My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''there were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.''
control nobody pleasure
And the first thing I would do in my government, I would have nobody to control me, I would be absolute; and who but I: now, he that is absolute, can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes, can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure
deal god great
Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
birds year
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
belongs business divers extremely good others polish sciences tender whom
Poetry, good sir, in my opinion, is like a tender virgin, very young, and extremely beautiful, whom divers others virgins - namely, all the other sciences - make it their business to enrich, polish and adorn; and to her it belongs to make use of them
company
Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.