Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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
Courage
War
Good
Vanquish
Weapons
More quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued
Miguel de Cervantes
When a man says, Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife? there is no answer to be made.
Miguel de Cervantes
El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.
Miguel de Cervantes
Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.
Miguel de Cervantes
Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
Miguel de Cervantes
Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
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
Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
Miguel de Cervantes
A shy face is better than a forward heart.
Miguel de Cervantes
He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes
Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
Miguel de Cervantes
Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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
With life many things are remedied.
Miguel de Cervantes
The absent feel and fear every ill.
Miguel de Cervantes
If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
Miguel de Cervantes
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
Miguel de Cervantes
There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
Miguel de Cervantes
Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
Miguel de Cervantes
Honesty's the best policy.
Miguel de Cervantes
