He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and the goal of a good intention was never reached through its opposite, laziness.” — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
