Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de 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...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 September 1547
CountrySpain
Miguel de Cervantes quotes about
shoes i-can my-own
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
remembrance prove former
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
too-much good-things too-much-of-a-good-thing
Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
sorrow care sin
Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
fruitcake speak speak-the-truth
I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
world wind-in-the-willows miscellaneous
It takes all sorts (to make a world
taken care chance
I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.
porridge miscellaneous breaths
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
desire matter likes
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 can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.
journey suffering maps
Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.
father history may
History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.
future new-day tomorrow
Tomorrow will be a new day.
traitor treason please
The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
women bears affront
Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.