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...
families mine
There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say: the haves and the have-nots.
alien handling suspected
We're handling it as a suspected alien smuggling case.
understanding
It is not the hand, but the understanding of a man, that may be said to write
love nature women
That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
bad hanged house judgment man speak
It is bad judgment to speak of halters in the house of a man who was hanged
case hate
I hate to keep things long in case they go mouldy from over-keeping.
bottom fortune lies mill round today top turns wheel yesterday
Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at the bottom
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.
book found good
There is no book so bad, said the bachelor, but something good may be found in it.
actions deeds ennoble good sons
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds
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.
concerned essential far god himself history sacred truth
History is a sacred kind of writing, because truth is essential to it, and where truth is, there God himself is, so far as truth is concerned
boat finger pie
He has an oar in every man's boat and a finger in every pie