Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long exper... -Miguel de Cervantes

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Miguel de Cervantes , Novelist
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Miguel de Cervantes Quotes to Explore

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it....
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him ...
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly....
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it....
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other....
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 ...
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes....
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not....
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn....
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water....

Experience Quotes to Explore

We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing p...
Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in b...
Socialism and Communism are extremely attractive to a superficial observer. It is not until you get into the details, or actually experience it, that ...
The only way young players learn how to get better is by playing or get the experience is by playing and getting out there and doing it....
Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer....
The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy....
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later....
Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our r...
The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet mor...
When I was a teenager, in the '80s, it was 'Dynasty.' It was 'Beverly Hills, 90210.' And those were fantasies. Those weren't reflective of my experien...