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
guidance standards comparison
Comparisons are odious.
lovers absent
Everything disturbs an absent lover.
lovers uneasy industrious
Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
helping god-help
God helps everyone with what is his own.
followers folly comrade
Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
traitor treason please
Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
wit-and-humor genius wit
Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
drinking wine secret
Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
gathering wool ass
But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
preacher preaching wells
He preaches well that lives well
madness
Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
get-well recovery past
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
fishing effort dry
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
traitor treason please
The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.