Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Miguel de Cervantes
Age: 69 †
Born: 1547
Born: January 1
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
Accountant
Author
Lyricist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Soldier
Tax Collector
Writer
Alcala de Henares
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
Thing
Submit
Praise
Discipline
Literature
Another
More quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
Miguel de Cervantes
Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
Miguel de Cervantes
Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
Miguel de Cervantes
Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
Miguel de Cervantes
I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
Miguel de Cervantes
Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
Miguel de Cervantes
Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.
Miguel de Cervantes
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Miguel de Cervantes
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
Miguel de Cervantes
The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
Miguel de Cervantes
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
Miguel de Cervantes
I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
Miguel de Cervantes
What a man has, so much he is sure of.
Miguel de Cervantes
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
Miguel de Cervantes
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
Miguel de Cervantes
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Miguel de Cervantes
All sorrows are less with bread.
Miguel de Cervantes
The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
Miguel de Cervantes
Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
Miguel de Cervantes
Let every man mind his own business.
Miguel de Cervantes
