Cervantes
Cervantes
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...
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
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