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
man
One man is no more than another if he does no more than another
bad hanged house judgment man speak
It is bad judgment to speak of halters in the house of a man who was hanged
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.
born man ripens time
Time ripens all thing. No man is born wise.
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.
eat friends-or-friendship knows man salt
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
cowardice half lies true valor
True valor lies half way between cowardice and rashness.
blessings covers human invented
Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts.
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.
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
families grandma
My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''there were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.''