A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
More Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes:
There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.Miguel de Cervantes
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Miguel de Cervantes
The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance.
Miguel de Cervantes
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Miguel de Cervantes
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Miguel de Cervantes
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
Miguel de Cervantes
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