"I do not say a proverb is amiss……" — Miguel de Cervantes
"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."
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Miguel de Cervantes
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314 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes has 314 quotes on this site.
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as…
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any…
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the…
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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars;…
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses…
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our…
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We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing…
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On a flight of emotion there's wonder and bliss, but beware of a landing that may go amiss.
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(The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to…
— Samuel Clarke
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Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.
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He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he…
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For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense…
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When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If…
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A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss
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You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot…
— Victor Hugo
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What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss…
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