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Him Quotes by 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,…
- From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
- 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,…
- Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for…
- Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
- It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
- Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the…
- Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.
- Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
- Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
- Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
- Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on…
- The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
- One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful,…
- For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
- A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold…
- Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
- A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden