Miguel Quotes

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.

Let every man look before he leaps.

Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time

All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.

But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.

Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.

Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.

Get out of harms way.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.

There is no proverb that is not true.

I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.

Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.

Little said is soon amended.

Health and cheerfulness make beauty

What is bought is cheaper than a gift.

The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.

True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

A shy face is better than a forward heart.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.

Behind the cross is the devil.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

He that gives quickly gives twice.

He who reforms, God assists.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

He who's never loved cannot be good.

Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.

Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

Every one in his own house and God in all of them.

One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.

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.

What a man has, so much he is sure of.

It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.

It requires a long time to know anyone.

Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued

In hell there is no retention.