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
pain giving jest
Jests that give pains are no jests.
pain members ache
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
pain men
Other men's pains are easily borne.
pain expect-nothing labor
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes
funny humor painter
Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
pain remembrance doe
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
art painting painter
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
god pain sake
We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
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.
son acceptance men
Every man is the son of his own works.
emotional glasses giants
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
attractive attributes eyes mercy pleasing though
Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
brave man son
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.