Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
Spanish novelist, poet and playwright.
The best sauce in the world is hunger.
The pot calls the kettle black.
I shall be as secret as the grave.
'Twill grieve me so to the heart that I shall cry my eyes out.
I was ever charitable and good to the poor, and scorn to take the bread out of another man's mouth. On the other side, by our Lady, they shall play me no foul play. I am an old cur at a crust, and can sleep dog-sleep when I list. I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes. I know where the shoe wrings me. I will know who and who is together. 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.
Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
Ready to split his sides with laughing.
Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
Cervantes, Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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.
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.