Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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
Universal
Literature
Experience
Mother
Proverb
True
Maxims
Many
Sciences
Believe
Drawn
Sentences
More quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Miguel de Cervantes
Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
Miguel de Cervantes
The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
Miguel de Cervantes
Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
Miguel de Cervantes
Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
Miguel de Cervantes
Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
Miguel de Cervantes
Honesty's the best policy.
Miguel de Cervantes
Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
Miguel de Cervantes
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
Miguel de Cervantes
They who lose today may win tomorrow.
Miguel de Cervantes
The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
Miguel de Cervantes
True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.
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
Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
Miguel de Cervantes
There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
Miguel de Cervantes
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
Miguel de Cervantes
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
Miguel de Cervantes
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
Miguel de Cervantes
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
Miguel de Cervantes
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Miguel de Cervantes
