Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Play, Expect, Scratched, Cats
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Courage, Valor, Lies, Halfway
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Within, Foes, Whom, Chiefly
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Truth, Rise Above, Oil, Falsehood
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Other, Sure, Which, Remedy
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
- Miguel de Cervantes
God, Forever, Bears, Wicked
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Own, Ideal, Means, Brag
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
Believe, Sentences, Many, Maxims
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Better, Her, Maiden, Reserve
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.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Reason, May, Terror, Butcher
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
Goal, Fortune, Brought, Diligence
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Sometimes, Deal, Made, Great Deal
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Some, Always, Lawful, Frailty
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Art, Rome, Thou Art, Thou
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Art, Thy, Thee, Thou
Thou hast seen nothing yet.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Nothing, Seen, Thou
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Some, Seldom, Mixture, Tempered
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Reading, Brain, Too Much, Dried
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.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Say, Them, Applied, Reasonably
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Love, Eyes, Silent, Tongues
Fair and softly goes far.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Fair, Goes, Far, Softly
'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Talking, Hanged, Ill, Tis
Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Miserable, Partners, Woes, Tis
Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Flock, Though, Dainty, Tis
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Often, Them, Almost, Tis
Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Look, Better, Things, Giants
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
Last, Still, Unreachable, Ounce
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Short, Sentence, Based, Proverb
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Doing, Always, Like, Base
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Design, Delay, Always, Ruin
He had a face like a blessing.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Face, Like, Had, Blessing
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Wealth, Found, Expenditure, Gratification
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Wish, Never, Arrived, Attainment
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
- Miguel de Cervantes
World, Folly, Than, Despair
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Love, Wings, Hours, Crutches
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Liberty, Hazard, His, Ought
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Wise, Born, Things, All Things
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Success, Impossible, Absurd, Order
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Law, Pity, Severity, Motive
He preaches well that lives well.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Well, He, Lives, Preaches
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Over, Most, Considerable, Servants
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Good, Deeds, Sons, Ennoble
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Nor, Moderately, Neither, Keeps
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Fear, See, Things, Underground
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Music, Soul, Tune, Alas
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Wealth, More, His, Loses
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Love, Nature, Them, To Love
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Will, Always, Rather, Falsehood
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Truth, Broken, Always, Falsehood
A closed mouth catches no flies.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Wisdom, Mouth, Flies, Closed
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
Graduation, Other, Costs, Hunger
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
- Miguel de Cervantes
World, Grandmother, Old, Families
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Love, Other, Same, Policy
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Dry, Taking, Trout
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
- Miguel de Cervantes
World, Private, Public, Sin
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
See, May, Too, Sanity
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Never, Begging, Which, Earn
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Reason, More, Away, Action
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Character, Most, Plays, Fool
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
- Miguel de Cervantes
True, Valor, Lies, Cowardice
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Short, Proverbs, Sentences
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Knowledge, Yourself, Will, Vanity
Virtue is the truest nobility.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Nobility, Truest, Virtue
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Brainy, Submit, Another, Praise
A person dishonored is worst than dead.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Dead, Person, Than, Worst
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Parenting, Think, Fathers, Mothers
Every man is the son of his own works.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Son, His, Works, Every Man
That which costs little is less valued.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Less, Costs, Which, Valued
To be prepared is half the victory.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Success, Prepared, Half, Be Prepared
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Victory, Prepared, Half, Be Prepared
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
- Miguel de Cervantes
War, Nothing, Fortune, Subject
Jests that give pains are no jests.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Give, Pains
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