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Man Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
- 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,…
- 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…
- Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
- There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
- Every man is the son of his own works.
- Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains…
- Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to…
- 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…
- An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
- '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…
- A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
- The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
- Man appoints, and God disappoints.
- It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
- Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.
- It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
- The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
- No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
- I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us…
- One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
- Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
- Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
- Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.
- I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey…
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