Cervantes
Cervantes
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...
time great-things all-things
There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.
pudding eating proof
The proof of the pudding is the eating.
witty children clever
A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.
4th-of-july men honor
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable
book poet turns
[To] turn poet, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
climbing hands knights
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
believe play luck
I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
luck ill
As ill-luck would have it.
wise kings sleep
Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
freedom men hands
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
world sin this-world
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
love-you
Thank you for nothing.
procrastination house streets
By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.
home house
Every one in his own house and God in all of them.