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Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

One swallow alone does not make the summer.

They who lose today may win tomorrow.

Neer look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.

Mum is the word.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

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.

Thats the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Well, theres a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.