Miguel de Cervantes
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.Collection: Graduation
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.Collection: Hope
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.Collection: War
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.Collection: Success
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.Collection: Experience
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.Collection: Power
A closed mouth catches no flies.Collection: Wisdom
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.Collection: Best
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.Collection: Parenting
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.Collection: Brainy
The eyes those silent tongues of love.Collection: Love
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.Collection: Humor
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.Collection: Courage
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.Collection: Courage
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.Collection: Truth
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.Collection: Knowledge
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.Collection: Design
To be prepared is half the victory.Collection: Success
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.Collection: Experience
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.Collection: Fear
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.Collection: Courage
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.Collection: Death
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.Collection: Truth
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
Thou hast seen nothing yet.
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Fair and softly goes far.
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Man appoints, and God disappoints.
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
Virtue is the truest nobility.
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
A person dishonored is worst than dead.
He had a face like a blessing.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Jests that give pains are no jests.
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.