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...
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?
advice fool
A woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool
control nobody pleasure
And the first thing I would do in my government, 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
company
Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
man
One man is no more than another if he does no more than another
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
love
Love not what you are, but what you may become.
case hate
I hate to keep things long in case they go mouldy from over-keeping.
families mine
There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say: the haves and the have-nots.
families grandma
My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''there were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.''
birds year
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
card few lost
As much is lost by a card too many as a card too few