Cervantes
Don Quixote
Sayings by Cervantes
Many go out for wool and come home shorn.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
The greatest beauty is that which is natural.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
There's a remedy for all things but death.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
It is not the part of a good Christian to return evil for evil.
The pot calls the kettle black.
The belly carries the legs, and not the legs the belly.
He who is master of himself, is master of the world.
There are two roads, Sancho, by which men may come to be rich and lords: one is that of letters, the other that of arms.
The devil is in the details.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
The greatest sorcery is to do good, and the greatest madness is to live without it.
Discretion is the better part of valor.
The more you stir it, the more it stinks.
Hunger is the best sauce.