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...
wit-and-humor genius wit
Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
sorrow care sin
Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
fruitcake speak speak-the-truth
I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
may wealth masters
Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
men looks leap
Let every man look before he leaps.
blood envy acting
If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
men
What a man has, so much he is sure of.
world wind-in-the-willows miscellaneous
It takes all sorts (to make a world
vanity handsome imagine
For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.
taken care chance
I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.
equality world earth
When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
wise enough wise-words
Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.
two mines
Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
compassion judging sides
It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.