1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Leaders and Leadership]
'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Tact and Tactfulness]
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Love]
'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.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Death and Dying]
'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Misers and Misery]
A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Posterity]
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Friends and Friendship]
A person dishonored is worst than dead.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Honor]
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Sin]
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Proverbs]
Absence — that common cure of love.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Absence]
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Music]
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own… there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Plagiarism]
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Caution]
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Slang]
By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Future]
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Slavery]
Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Death and Dying]
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Procrastination]
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Miguel De Cervantes – [Diligence]