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...
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
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
achievement love men sexual
Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end
love
Love not what you are, but what you may become.
man
One man is no more than another if he does no more than another
families grandma
My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''there were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.''
families mine
There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say: the haves and the have-nots.
case hate
I hate to keep things long in case they go mouldy from over-keeping.
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.
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.
birds year
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
noise saving tricks village
Oh, sir, sir, there are more tricks done in the village than make a noise - saving her ladyship's presence.