Miguel de Cervantes

He had a face like a blessing.

Fair and softly goes far.

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

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

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

That which costs little is less valued.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.