"Wit and humor do not reside in slow…" — Miguel de Cervantes
"Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds."
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
— Aristotle
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
— Aristotle
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Wit is educated insolence.
— Aristotle
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
— Aristotle
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The secret to humor is surprise.
— Aristotle
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
— Aristotle
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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about…
— J. J. Abrams
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
— Isaac Asimov
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
— Isaac Asimov
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
— Francis of Assisi
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
— Jane Austen
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