There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESThere are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESThe phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESNever look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESWhere envy reigns virtue can’t exist, and generosity doesn’t go with meanness.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESOther men’s pains are easily borne.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESSleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESLet every man mind his own business.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESHow will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESLove is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESWhen life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESRiches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESThat one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESOur greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESEverything disturbs an absent lover.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESI drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESBe brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES