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.
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
art coward thou
Thou art a cat, and rat, and a coward to boot.
cowardice half lies true valor
True valor lies half way between cowardice and rashness.
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
book found good
There is no book so bad, said the bachelor, but something good may be found in it.
families mine
There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say: the haves and the have-nots.