Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de 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...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 September 1547
CountrySpain
sleep blessing
Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
giving
He that gives quickly gives twice.
veterans-day feet veteran
The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
drinking cloaks drinkers
Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker
mother past hatred
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
home should-have broken
The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
mother motherhood proverbial
There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
advice littles fool
Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
sleep insomnia men
Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
creativity productions
Every production must resemble its author.
devil needs
They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
littles accumulation
Many littles make a much.
men talking house
Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
men house
One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.