To be prepared is half the victory.
Miguel de Cervantes
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
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.
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Man appoints, and God disappoints.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Every man is the son of his own works.
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
Thou hast seen nothing yet.
He preaches well that lives well.
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Fair and softly goes far.
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.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
That which costs little is less valued.
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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.
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
Virtue is the truest nobility.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
