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...
artful
The most artful part in a play,may is the fool's
eat friends-or-friendship knows man salt
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
bad good imitate nature painters
Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
looked ran thoughts
But my thoughts ran woolgathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
art coward thou
Thou art a cat, and rat, and a coward to boot.
cowardice half lies true valor
True valor lies half way between cowardice and rashness.
judge proof pudding sample small
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
begins ends fourth lightning love runs sets third tis turns walks wounds
Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes
born man ripens time
Time ripens all thing. No man is born wise.
balancing bless cloak covers cures food god hunger inventor king levels shepherd simple weight
God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all men's thoughts, the food that cures all hunger . . . the balancing weight that levels the shepherd with the king and the simple with the wise.
patience shuffle
If that should not be, cousin, I say: patience and shuffle the cards.
eggs himself man tis today venture wise
Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.
understanding
It is not the hand, but the understanding of a man, that may be said to write
hand heavy hold light neither nor punishment shall strange touch
Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.