In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraTags: inspirational
One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraBut my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.” Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LVII)
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraTags: forgetfulness-fool-fools
The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraLove is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds; and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraTags: love
As regards your government of yourself and your household, Sancho, my first piece of advice is to be clean and to cut your fingernails, and not to let them grow long, as some people do, moved by ignorance to believe that long nails make their hand look beautiful, as if those appendages, those excrescences that they leave uncut have any right to be called fingernails at all, because they are more like talons of a kestrel: a monstrous and filthy abuse.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra... he who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is...
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe dead to the grave, the living to the loaf.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraTags: wisdom
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraIt's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.
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