Miguel Quotes

A man prepared has half fought the battle.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

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

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.

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

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

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

It takes all sorts (to make a world

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

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

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

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

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.

Sing away sorrow, cast away care.

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.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

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

There is no love lost between us.

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

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.

The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.

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

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

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

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

Jests that give pains are no jests.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

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

The man who fights for his ideals is alive.