Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
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
Much
Drinking
Wine
Promise
Either
Secret
Keep
Cannot
Temperate
Remember
Remembering
More quotes by 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
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
Miguel de Cervantes
Honesty's the best policy.
Miguel de Cervantes
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
Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
Miguel de Cervantes
Let us forget and forgive injuries.
Miguel de Cervantes
The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
Miguel de Cervantes
Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
Jests that give pains are no jests.
Miguel de Cervantes
For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
Miguel de Cervantes
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
Miguel de Cervantes
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
Miguel de Cervantes
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.
Miguel de Cervantes
He had a face like a blessing.
Miguel de Cervantes
'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
Miguel de Cervantes
Where there's music there can be no evil.
Miguel de Cervantes
Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
Miguel de Cervantes
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
Miguel de Cervantes
A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
Miguel de Cervantes
