There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
Miguel De Cervantes Quotes
- When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
- Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
- One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.
- He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
- Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
- Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
- A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
- Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
- I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.