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Miguel de Cervantes
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Miguel de Cervantes
Age: 69 †
Born: 1547
Born: January 1
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
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More quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Miguel de Cervantes
The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
Miguel de Cervantes
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
Miguel de Cervantes
A shy face is better than a forward heart.
Miguel de Cervantes
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.
Miguel de Cervantes
The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
Miguel de Cervantes
Let every man mind his own business.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
Miguel de Cervantes
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Miguel de Cervantes
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
Miguel de Cervantes
There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha
Miguel de Cervantes
Let the worst come to the worst.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is impossible for good or evil to last forever and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
Miguel de Cervantes
He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
Miguel de Cervantes
All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
Miguel de Cervantes
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
Miguel de Cervantes
'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.
Miguel de Cervantes
They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
Miguel de Cervantes
Health and cheerfulness make beauty
Miguel de Cervantes
