Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Quote by Miguel De Cervantes
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
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Miguel De Cervantes Quotes
- The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
- 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.
- A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
- Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
- Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
- For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
- American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
- I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.
- I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
- Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
- The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
- God can help man solve all man's problems except man.
- God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
- It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.