Miguel De Cervantes

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.

I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

Every one in his own house and God in all of them.

Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

Bien predica quien bien vive. _x000D_ He preaches well who lives well.

With life many things are remedied.

Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.