Quotes by Cervantes, Miguel De

Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast li >>

Thou hast seen nothing yet. >>

Man appoints, and God disappoints. >>

Quotations about History and Historians

History is but a confused heap of facts. >>

History is more or less bunk. >>

Might does not make right, it only makes history. >>

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

Cervantes, Miguel De