"-->* They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains."

Miguel de Cervantes Literature See all quotes by Miguel de Cervantes →

React to this quote

More by Miguel de Cervantes

“The soldier who executes his captain's commands is no less valuable than the captain who gave the order.”

“Y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio.”

“En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no hace mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.”

“-->* I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.”

“...estás en tu casa, donde eres señor della, como el rey de sus alcabalas.”

“Acontece tener un padre un hijo feo y sin gracia alguna, y el amor que le tiene le pone una venda en los ojos para que no vea sus faltas, antes las juzga por discreciones y lindezas y las cuenta a sus amigos por agudezas y donaires.”

Resonant Thoughts

"That twelve thousand written years should have elapsed, and the human race—able to reason and to think, and easily capable of combination in immense armies for its own destruction—should still live fr…"

— Richard Jefferies

Literature1848–1887

#family

"30th . Morning visit from John Ross, chief of the Cherokee Nation, with Vann and Benn, two others of the delegation. Ross had written to request an interview with me for them on my appointment as Chai…"

— John Quincy Adams

Politics

#justice

"The fate of America is already decided — Behold her independent beyond recovery. — But will She be free and happy? — Can this new people, so advantageously placed for giving an example to the world of…"

— Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Politics1727–1781

#justice

"In 1423, the Franciscan friar St. Bernardino of Siena preached a celebrated sermon against cards at Bologna, attributing their invention to the devil. Despite such ecclesiastic interdiction, Johannes …"

— Richard Arnold Epstein

physicist1927–2016

#creativity