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...
advice way harm
Get out of harms way.
pudding proof
The proof is in the pudding.
easter investment-success chocolate-eggs
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
revenge giving devil
Give the devil his due.
riches able flaws
Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.
mirrors shining may
The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
cost civility politeness
There is nothing costs less than civility.
poetry may historian
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.
pain men
Other men's pains are easily borne.
good-luck doors luck
When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.
cake have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too miscellaneous
You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
littles riches calamity
Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
absence ill feels
The absent feel and fear every ill.
shining sun hay
Let us make hay while the sun shines.