About Miguel de Cervantes: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright.
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
Every man is the son of his own works.
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.
Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
Virtue is the truest nobility.
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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.
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.
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
