Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) ( 10 of 66 )
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.
The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted.
The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted.
The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
[Sp., Tripas llevan corazon, que no corazon tripas.]
The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
[Sp., Tripas llevan corazon, que no corazon tripas.]
Heaven's help is better than early rising.
Heaven's help is better than early rising.
Thank you for nothing.
Thank you for nothing.
It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
[Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.]
It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
[Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.]
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the
comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and read more
Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the
comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty
and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?
Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than
discretion.
[Sp., Mas acompanados y paniguados debe di read more
Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than
discretion.
[Sp., Mas acompanados y paniguados debe di tener la locura que la
discrecion.]
Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
[Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.]
Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
[Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.]
