Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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
Eating
Heart
Carries
Carrie
Stomach
More quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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
Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
Miguel de Cervantes
I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
Miguel de Cervantes
The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
Miguel de Cervantes
The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
Miguel de Cervantes
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
Miguel de Cervantes
All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
Miguel de Cervantes
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
Miguel de Cervantes
Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
Miguel de Cervantes
He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
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
Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
Miguel de Cervantes
Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
Miguel de Cervantes
She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
Miguel de Cervantes
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Miguel de Cervantes
Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
Miguel de Cervantes
Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
Miguel de Cervantes
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
Miguel de Cervantes
