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
judging pieces may
The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece....
winning may today
Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
may too-much madness
Too much sanity may be madness.
vision may
Love not what you are but only what you may become.
dream lying may
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
may wealth masters
Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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.
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.
should-have may should
He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
father history may
History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.
winning today may
They who lose today may win tomorrow.
who-i-am choices may
I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
company thou thy
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
deal great man
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.