Miguel de Cervantes ( 10 of 34 )
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
Absence, that common cure of love.
Absence, that common cure of love.
'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of read more
'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it read more
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -Miguel de Cervantes.
To be prepared is half the victory.
To be prepared is half the victory.
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause read more
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
