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...
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
los
El ver mucho y leer mucho aviva los ingenios de los hombres.
drink keeps neither nor promise
Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise
fear ground
Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.
blessings covers human invented
Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts.
company
Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
armies turn
Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep?
love nature women
That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
complain enjoy luck passes
Who doesn't know how to enjoy luck when it comes, should not complain when it passes him by
came lived
Without a governorship you came out of your mother's womb, without a governorship you've lived to this day, and without a governorship you'll go - or they'll take you - to the grave.
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
alone eyes sharp
I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.
belongs business divers extremely good others polish sciences tender whom
Poetry, good sir, in my opinion, is like a tender virgin, very young, and extremely beautiful, whom divers others virgins - namely, all the other sciences - make it their business to enrich, polish and adorn; and to her it belongs to make use of them
achievement love men sexual
Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end