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
son acceptance men
Every man is the son of his own works.
god men disappoint
Man appoints, and God disappoints.
prayer rap men
'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
wise men eggs
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
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.
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.
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.
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.
fighting men evil
The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
men noses bread
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
love-is men two
There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.
men doubt despair
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
4th-of-july men honor
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable