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...
hands evil long
For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
drinking beer alcohol
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
mother children father
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
character play acting
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
mother experience universal
Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
music soul jars
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
guidance standards comparison
Comparisons are odious.
adventure way
I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
character men simple
The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
mind wit-and-humor wit
Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
friendship art thee
Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
pain remembrance doe
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
truth oil water
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
art painting painter
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.