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
history posterity
A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
leadership sheep society
Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
men death-of-a-friend sorrow
There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
deeds urgent prompts
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
food looks cheesecake
Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
god giving wounds
God who gives the wound gives the salve.
men tears seduction
Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
shoes i-can my-own
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
littles said
Little said is soon amended.
desperate-measures desperate urges
Necessity urges desperate measures.
lovers uneasy industrious
Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
lovers absent
Everything disturbs an absent lover.
kings law frogs
Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
sweet house god-love
Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.