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...
best victory wish
He got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wish for
book found good
There is no book so bad, said the bachelor, but something good may be found in it.
case hate
I hate to keep things long in case they go mouldy from over-keeping.
actions deeds ennoble good sons
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds
boat finger pie
He has an oar in every man's boat and a finger in every pie
alone eyes sharp
I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.
blessings covers human invented
Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts.
looked ran thoughts
But my thoughts ran woolgathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
answer man says
When a man says ""Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?"" there's no answer to be made
families grandma
My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''there were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.''
birds year
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
families mine
There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say: the haves and the have-nots.
achievement love men sexual
Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end
love
Love not what you are, but what you may become.