Miguel Quotes

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

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

Jests that give pains are no jests.

Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.

Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.

God who sends the wound sends the medicine.

Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.

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.

Sing away sorrow, cast away care.

Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.

There is no love lost between us.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.

I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

Consciousness is a disease.

The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Just tell me one boy, just one who at seven didn't aspire to be a hero or a fireman.

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

I'm not really a guy who draws on things from my own past.

Love and honesty don't mix.

My killer instinct is so strong that lions call me to take lessons.

Love for yourself is the key to loving other. Love begins with you

That which costs little is less valued.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

Let everything we do and say be an expression of the beauty in our heart, always based on love