Miguel Quotes

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

Miracle me no miracles.

Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.

And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.

The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.

Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.

The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.

Every production must resemble its author.

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

The absent feel and fear every ill.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.

He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

God helps everyone with what is his own.

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

The journey is better than the inn".

Let the worst come to the worst.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

We are all as God made us and frequently much worse.

The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.

He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.

I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.

For hope is always born at the same time as love.

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker

We must not stand upon trifles.

Tomorrow will be a new day.

Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.

Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

Heaven's help is better than early rising.

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.

They must needs go whom the Devil drives.