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...
honor
My honor is dearer to me than my life.
men broken bones
Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
enough persons handle
All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
death teeth spite
There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.
sin motive
Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.
life learning evil
It is good to live and learn.
past example action
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
sea fishing rivers
I have other fish to fry.
justice politics economy
"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."
horse grandmother two
There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.
devil doe stiles
Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
courage war weapons
It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
men mouths spoons
Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
pieces sides language
Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.