Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“So it appears to me, for when he could and should have wielded his pen to praise the virtues of so good a knight,… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share
“Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!” — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share
I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share
One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share
