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| Miguel de Cervantes
'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged. A closed mouth catches no flies.A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. Alas! all music jars when the soul’s out of tune. Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason. Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. Can we ever have too much of a good thing? Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise. Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. 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 if he like a madman lived, At least he like a wise one died. He had a face like a blessing. He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum. 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. It is good to live and learn. Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd. One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves. The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other. There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends. There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. Time ripens all things, no man is born wise. Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows. |
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