Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
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
Mind
Policy
Governing
Make
Feet
Foot
Good
Shall
Stick
Hand
Sticks
Point
Main
Hands
Honesty
Best
Neither
Heart
Beginning
Fellowship
More quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
Miguel de Cervantes
For if he like a madman lived At least he like a wise one died.
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
There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
Miguel de Cervantes
She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
Miguel de Cervantes
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
Miguel de Cervantes
Think before thou speakest.
Miguel de Cervantes
With life many things are remedied.
Miguel de Cervantes
The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.
Miguel de Cervantes
A person dishonored is worst than dead.
Miguel de Cervantes
The little birds have God for their caterer.
Miguel de Cervantes
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
Miguel de Cervantes
What a man has, so much he is sure of.
Miguel de Cervantes
When we are asleep, we are all equal.
Miguel de Cervantes
Health and cheerfulness make beauty
Miguel de Cervantes
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes
The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
Miguel de Cervantes
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
He who sings frightens away his ills.
Miguel de Cervantes