Quotes by Cervantes, Miguel De

To be prepared is half the victory. >>

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. >>

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let h >>

Quotations about Death and Dying

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our a >>

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep >>

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but >>

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

Cervantes, Miguel De