Quotes by Spanish Authors - Page 4

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on without enquiry and almost at first sight the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends the part known gives us evidence enough that the unknown part cannot be much amiss.
George Santayana
Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
Miguel de Cervantes
To cement a new friendship especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person and cut across the accidents of place and time.
George Santayana
When you are young and without success you have only a few friends. Then later on when you are rich and famous you still have a few ... if you are lucky.
Pablo Picasso
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune the very ventilation of the soul.
Baltasar Gracián
There is no wilderness like a life without friends friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes it is a unique remedy against adversity and it soothes the soul.
Baltasar Gracián
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
George Santayana
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.
Baltasar Gracián
Let us forget and forgive injuries.
Miguel de Cervantes
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate nor pain which death does not terminate.
Miguel de Cervantes
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
Miguel de Cervantes
Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracián
What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare a Michelangelo a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.
Pablo Casals
Love blinds us to faults hatred to virtues.
Moses Ibn Ezra
Faith is the summit of the Torah.
Solomon ibn Gabirol
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel de Unamuno
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
Miguel de Unamuno
He had a face like a benediction.
Miguel de Cervantes
England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.
George Santayana
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracián
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Miguel de Cervantes
All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.
Antonio Machado
How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion when I cannot make two timepieces agree!
Charles V
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
Miguel de Cervantes
Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.
George Santayana
In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
Fedirico Garcia Lorca
There is nothing to which men while they have food and drink cannot reconcile themselves.
George Santayana
Said the pot to die kettle "Get away blackface."
Miguel de Cervantes
I do not seek. I find.
Pablo Picasso
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
José Ortega y Gasset
Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de Cervantes
Knowledge without courage is sterile.
Baltasar Gracián
Faint heart never won fair lady.
Miguel de Cervantes
The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.
Miguel de Cervantes
He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he who loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead for she is wont to favor the bold.
Baltasar Gracián
Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Cervantes
The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.
Cervantes
Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
George Santayana
All will come out in the washing.
Miguel de Cervantes
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
José Ortega y Gasset
The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
George Santayana
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.
St. Francis Xavier
He who sings frightens away his ills.
Miguel de Cervantes
Every one is as God made him and often a great deal worse.
Miguel de Cervantes
Every one is as God made him and oftentimes a good deal worse.
Cervantes
Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
Antonio Machado
In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
George Santayana
A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
Juan Ramón Jiménez
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
Miguel de Cervantes
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Miguel de Cervantes
A stout heart breaks bad luck.
Miguel de Cervantes
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Miguel de Cervantes
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
George Santayana
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Miguel de Cervantes