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Miguel de Cervantes - From the Commerce category:
That which costs little is less valued. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Communication category:
He has done like Orbaneja, the painter of Ubeda... when he had scrawled out a cock, was forced to write underneath it in Gothic letters, 'This is a cock.' (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Criticism category:
By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Danger category:
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Discipline category:
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Drunkenness category:
Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Fear category:
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Friendship category:
Tell me what company thou keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Future category:
Thou hast seen nothing yet. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Guidance category:
Comparisons are odious. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Humour category:
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Impossibilities category:
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Love category:
Love not what you are, but what you may become. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Love category:
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Money category:
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Music category:
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Nature category:
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Pets category:
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Play category:
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Preparation category:
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Prosperity category:
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Sadness category:
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Seeing category:
The eyes those silent tongues of love. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Silence category:
A closed mouth catches no flies. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Strength category:
Fair and softly goes far. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Truth category:
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Vanity category:
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Wisdom category:
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Words category:
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Miguel de Cervantes - From the Work category:
Every man is the son of his own works. (Miguel de Cervantes)
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