Quote #41

Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.

More from Miguel de Cervantes

  1. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
  2. It is a common proverb, beauteous princess, that diligence is the mother of good fortune.
  3. I begin to smell a rat.
  4. The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
  5. I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
  6. It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.
  7. Let us forget and forgive injuries.
  8. When the head aches, all the members partake of the pains.

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