Author: Miguel de Cervantes

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To be prepared is half the victory.

To be prepared is half the victory.

- Miguel de Cervantes

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

- Miguel de Cervantes

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

- Miguel de Cervantes

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

- Miguel de Cervantes

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

- Miguel de Cervantes

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

- Miguel de Cervantes

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

- Miguel de Cervantes

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

- Miguel de Cervantes

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

- Miguel de Cervantes

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