Man have to have friends even in hell.
Miguel De Cervantes Quotations
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Delay always breeds danger.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase
I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.
Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.
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.
In the night all cats are gray.
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have-Nots.
He is as mad as a March hare.
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
Many count their chickens before they are hatched and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
You may as well expect pears from an elm.
Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
Within a stone's throw of it.
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
I think it a very happy accident.
I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.
Love not what you are, but what you may become.
That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
It is good to live and learn.
Let us make hay while the sun shines.
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
The pot calls the kettle black.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.
I shall be as secret as the grave.
There is no love lost between us.
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
I must follow him through thick and thin.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
Let every man mind his own business.
Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock.
Let every man look before he leaps.
Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
A good name is better than riches.
There is a time for some things, and a time for all things a time for great things, and a time for small things.
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Little said is soonest mended.
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
What a man has, so much he is sure of.
As they use to say, spick and span new.
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.
Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie.
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
All is not gold that glitters.
Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash...Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
As ill-luck would have it.
There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.