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For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.


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For if he like a madman lived, at least he like a wise one died.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... Never judge a person how he died, but how he lived.
RUDOLF JEROME RAGAY A wise old owl lived in an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke, The less he spoke, the more he he...
DANIEL YERGIN You know the opinion of Cervantes? He said that reading a translation is like examining the back of ...
CARL SAGAN Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m...
LISA KLEYPAS Wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard...
EDWARD HERSEY RICHARDS I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.
BRENE BROWN I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell ...
JIMMY SWAGGART Actually, the 10 days he took off did him real good letting his body just rest. And when he came bac...
JEFF LINENFELSER Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not ...
SYLVESTER STALLONE He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the ratling of his fetters....
THOMAS FULLER There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
SALVADOR DALI There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
SALVADOR DALí There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
SALVADOR DALí Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
SAMUEL RICHARDSON He kept the body intact and lived in isolation till he died Saturday
ASHOK KUMAR He played a brilliant game, ... We were able to at least salvage two points for him. Let's face the ...
RICK NASH Altogether, Methuselah lived 969 years, and then he died
BIBLE The wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he...
EDWARD H. RICHARDS I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.
NEIL YOUNG No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
EZRA POUND A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has ...
SYLVESTER STALLONE He was a loser, you know. Every high school has to have at least two: it's like a national law. One ...
STEPHEN KING     "I'm a guy like this," Gino explained to Jeanie; "I like anythin' against the odds. I don't ...
NELSON ALGREN He slept beneath the moon, he basked beneath the sun; he lived a life of going to do and died with ...
JAMES ALBERY It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
PETER TOWNSEND Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I My brother's death: wise, good, serious, he fell ill while still a young man, suffered for more than...
LEO TOLSTOY It's all over now. He ruled our lives for too long. He lived by the sword and died in his sleep.
JELENA OSTOJIC He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she ...
CASSANDRA CLARE He was really nice. He was like, 97, when he died. He was also a good golfer. He had eye cancer for ...
ANDREW KRIEG I turned 30 as a janitor. I was thinking at the time that Hank Williams died when he was 29. All my ...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON I always drive like a madman.
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and t...
WALTER SCOTT Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe ...
SUI HE Since raised blood pressure is the major cause of stroke, the blood pressure lowering effect of pota...
FENG HE As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv...
SUI HE I like to find old things
and I picked up that arrowhead
in tears, that broken point
...
LI HE These findings provide strong support for the recommendations encouraging the public to consume more...
FENG HE The average fruit and vegetable intake in most developed countries is about three servings per day, ...
FENG HE They are the Chinese heroes. I am happy for their performance and the result is not the most importa...
HE ZHENLIANG This will be conducive to the development of Sino-US relations and China's relationships with the re...
HE YAFEI The best way to resolve Sino-US trade imbalance is to expand bilateral trade cooperation. Restrictin...
HE YAFEI They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act.
HE YAFEI We are willing to import more U.S. goods.
HE YAFEI Even when he's making dumplings with peasants, he speaks memorized words and sounds like a People's ...
HE WEIFANG This is a critical moment. There is a lot of opposition to continuing the reforms as they are today.
HE WEIFANG I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties.
HE WEIFANG The situation exists in almost every well-known Chinese university.
HE WEIFANG The government really wants to slow down investment, but it can't control local governments who have...
HE FAN The new managed floating currency regime is just an interim system. There is a chance of a further w...
HE FAN Eventually, we found that the situation there was more serious than what we imagined.
HE CHANGCHUI Part of our mission is to find out what kind of assistance is required.
HE CHANGCHUI How do you tell a young person like that that he cannot come out and at least try out for the footba...
ARTHUR JOHNSON A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard...
EDWARD HERSEY RICHARDS A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard...
CHINESE PROVERBS A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard...
JOHN A. SIMONE, SR. A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard...
EDWARD H. RICHARDS A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard...
CONFUCIUS Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the on...
HERODOTUS At least 36. I just hope my brother knows the assistant pro here like he reckons he does.
CHRIS ANSTEY Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that dist...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I'm going to be blunt and plain: if one ever...
JIMMY SWAGGART It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
PETE TOWNSHEND Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet la...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Listening: A wise old owl sat in an oak. The longer he sat, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, th...
SOURCE UNKNOWN A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to...
JOHN LUBBOCK If a person desires to be a humorist it is necessary that the people around him shall be at least as...
JAMES STEPHENS What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It's like Charlie's dreamed everything he lived through here.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a madman.
GEORGE ORWELL Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Rob was fireman all the way. He lived it, he ate it, he breathed it and unfortunately he died it, bu...
JIM HODGES He looks like he's been playing running back at least a couple years of high school. I knew he was f...
LAMONT JOHNSON For him who confesses, shams are over and realities have begun; he has exteriorized his rottenness. ...
WILLIAM JAMES Was [Sisyphus] from your province?
'I don't know. I don't know if he's real,' Ky says. '...
ALLY CONDIE If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.
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GARY F EVANS... He died as he lived: working always for the greater good and, to his last hour, as willing to stretc...
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CERVANTES They're welcome, and we hope everything comes off without incident,
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JORGE CERVANTES He broke the windshield on this car. And he cut himself. And when he went it, he was bleeding. The c...
CHARLES CERVANTES We find that the tree of life is no longer a tree but a bridge whose final destination is yet to be ...
VICTOR CERVANTES (Officers) couldn't see if he had anything in his hands or anything, they just shot him. You know wh...
CHARLES CERVANTES They try to paint it as easy as they can.
ROY CERVANTES Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.) [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) With life many things are remedied. (While there's life there's hope.) [Sp., Con la vida mucha...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Soul of fibre and heart of oak. [Sp., Alma de esparto y corazon de encina.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saav...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. [Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien p...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I s...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and w...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) All will come out in the washing. [Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The pen is the tongue of the mind. [Sp., La pluma es lengua del alma.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Within a stone's throw of it.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society. [Sp., Las necedades del rico por se...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. [Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son m...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Fear has many eyes. [Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) He had a face like a benediction (blessing).
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) In hell there is no retention. [Sp., Quien ha infierene nula es retencio.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. [Sp., Como el hace...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) He who sings frightens away his ills. [Sp., Quien canta, sus males espanta.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) It will be seen in the frying of the eggs. [Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The pitcher goes so often to the fountain (that if gets broken). [Sp., Tantas veces va el cantaril...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) To Rome for everything. [Sp., Y a Roma pro todo.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) When you are at Rome, do as you see. [Sp., Cuando a Roma fueres, haz como vieres.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) A man prepared has half fought the battle. [Sp., Hombre apercebido medio combatido.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I have other fish to fry.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Honesty is the best policy.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Make hay while the sun shines.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The more thou stir it the worse it will be.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Let the worst come to the worst.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA God who sends the wound sends the medicine. [Sp., Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) As ill-luck would have it.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to bet...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Heaven's help is better than early rising.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) God helps everyone with what is his own. [Sp., Ayude Dios con lo suyo a cada uno.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) More knave than fool.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. [Sp., Mas acompanados y panigu...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I have other fish to fry.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while h...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly so...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) One swallow alone does not make the summer. [Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Make hay while the sun shines.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Thank you for nothing.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Earned with the sweat of my brows.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The rather since every man is the son of his own works. [Sp., Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo de s...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) This peck of troubles.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man fo...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! it covers a man all over, thought...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Can one desire too much of a good thing?
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach. [Sp., Tripas llevan corazon, que no ...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Hunger is the best sauce in the world. [Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can ...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) All that glisters is not gold.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulen...
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES To be prepared is half the victory.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Patience and shuffle the cards.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays t...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his bod...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Te...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Jests that give pains are no jests.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revi...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear,...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without governmen...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Man appoints, and God disappoints.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than hi...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than ju...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compar...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Eat not garlic nor onions, lest they find out thy boorish origin by the smell; walk slowly and speak...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Fair and softly goes far.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts a...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these boo...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES That which costs little is less valued.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES He preaches well that lives well.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, There were but two families in the world, have-much and have...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd le...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrous...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Miracle me no miracles.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A person dishonored is worst than dead.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and natural...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES He had a face like a blessing.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The eyes those silent tongues of love.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail o...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Absence -- that common cure of love.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Faint heart never won fair lady.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as g...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Absence, that common cure of love.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -...
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