Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
Spanish novelist, poet and playwright.
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
It is a common proverb, beauteous princess, that diligence is the mother of good fortune.
I am almost frighted out of my seven senses.
It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.
Let us forget and forgive injuries.
My honor is dearer to me than my life.
Within a stone's throw of it.
To give the devil his due.
La pluma es la lengua del alma: cuales fueren los conceptos que en ella se engendraren, tales serán sus escritos.
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
Time ripens all things. No man is born wise. Bishops are made of men and not of stones.
A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause.
Well, now, there's a remedy for everything except death.
Thou hast seen nothing yet.
Tomorrow will be a new day.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
In me the need to talk is a primary impulse, and I can't help saying right off what comes to my tongue.
My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.