Maxioms by Cervantes (miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as
marble to retain.
My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as
marble to retain.
Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
[Sp., Alma de esparto y corazon de encina.]
Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
[Sp., Alma de esparto y corazon de encina.]
You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
[Sp., Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina.]
God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
[Sp., Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina.]
