Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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
Spares
Breath
Breaths
Cool
Porridge
Practicality
Miscellaneous
Spare
More quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
For hope is always born at the same time as love.
Miguel de Cervantes
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
Miguel de Cervantes
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
Miguel de Cervantes
Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
Miguel de Cervantes
Jests that give pains are no jests.
Miguel de Cervantes
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
Miguel de Cervantes
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
Miguel de Cervantes
He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.
Miguel de Cervantes
Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
Miguel de Cervantes
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Miguel de Cervantes
All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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
The little birds have God for their caterer.
Miguel de Cervantes
To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is good to live and learn.
Miguel de Cervantes
True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
Miguel de Cervantes
