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...
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
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.
help primary saying talk
In me the need to talk is a primary impulse, and I can't help saying right off what comes to my tongue.
son
Every one is the son of his own works.
deal god great
Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
capable characters nine peers twelve
I know who I am, and I know too that I am capable of being not only the characters I have named, but all the Twelve Peers of France, and all the Nine Worthies as well.
noise saving tricks village
Oh, sir, sir, there are more tricks done in the village than make a noise - saving her ladyship's presence.
begging power stand
Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.
giants
Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
effect eye heart
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases; what the eye ne'er sees, the heart ne'er rues
eggs himself man venture wise
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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