Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
Spanish novelist, poet and playwright.
Absence, that common cure of love.
The painter Orbaneja of Ubeda, if he chanced to draw a cock, he wrote under it, "This is a cock," lest the people should take it for a fox.
Cada uno es como Dios le hizo, y aśn peor muchas veces.
I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.
Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep?
Remember the old saying, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."
Delay always breeds danger.
A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. 'Tis good to keep a nest egg. Every little makes a mickle.
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.
Let each man say what he chooses; if because of this I am criticized by the ignorant, I shall not be chastised by the learned.
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-Nots.
By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?
For if he like a madman lived,
At least he like a wise one died.