Miguel de Cervantes
- As ill - luck would have it.
- The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
- Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
- There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say, the haves and the have - nots.
- Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
- One swallow alone does not make the summer.
- A stout heart breaks bad luck.
- They who lose today may win tomorrow.
- He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.
- 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 all.
- The gust carry the feet, not the feet the gust.
- He had a face like a benediction.
- Dine on little, and sup on less.
- All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.
- Ne'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.
- A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
- Make hay while the sun shines.
- The pen is the tongue of the mind.
- Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
- They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
- One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
- All will come out in the washing.
- Let us forget and forgive injuries.
- It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
- The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.
- A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
- Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
- Fear is sharp - sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.
- Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
- My thoughts ran a wool - gathering.
- Delay always breeds danger, and to protract a great design is ofter to ruin it.
- Faint heart never won fair lady.
- God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
- There's no love lost between us.
- There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
- A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
- A closed mouth catches no flies.
- Here is the devil - and - all to pay.
- All that glisters is not gold.
- He who sings frightens away his ills.
- Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
- I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
- The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
- The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
- Everyone is as God made him, and ofter a great deal worse.
- Honesty is the best policy.
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