Quote #42
It is a common proverb, beauteous princess, that diligence is the mother of good fortune.
More from Miguel de Cervantes
- Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.
- The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
- The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
- It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.
- I begin to smell a rat.
- When the head aches, all the members partake of the pains.
- I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
- History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at…