Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616)
Spanish novelist, poet and playwright.
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?
History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.
Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.
Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment.
There is no love lost, sir.
Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.
Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Cervantes, Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.
Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
Ready to split his sides with laughing.
Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone.