154 quotes found
Writer · Spanish · 1547–1616
Spanish writer (1547–1616)
“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. ”
“He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all. ”
“Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.”
“Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. ”
“When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.”
“Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.”
“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
“To be prepared is half the victory.”
“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.”
“I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is n...”
“It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.”
“They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am bein...”
“The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.”
“You must not think sir to catch old birds with chaff.”
“All that glisters is not gold.”
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”
“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.”
“A stout heart breaks bad luck.”
“A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.”
“Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.”