Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra – 22 April 1616), was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 September 1547
CountrySpain
wine secret promise
Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
dog pet body
I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters; others have stayed upon their masters' graves without stirring a moment from them, and have voluntarily starved themselves to death, refusing to touch the food that was brought them.
names gold bags
A good name is better than bags of gold.
forgive-and-forget forgiving forget
Let us forget and forgive injuries.
prayer rap men
'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 ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
cat night gray
In the night all cats are gray.
believe sky limits
Believe there are no limits but the sky.
war conflict fortune
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
eye justice mercy
Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
death sheep dying
Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and the old sheep.
summer doe
One swallow alone does not make a summer.
regret years bird
Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.
pain giving jest
Jests that give pains are no jests.
wise men eggs
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.