Miguel de Cervantes · Don Quijote
Cuando la cólera sale de madre, no tiene la lengua padre, ayo ni freno que la corrija.When anger is born of a mother, it has no father, no nurse, nor any bridle to restrain it.
AI service translation, not reviewed by a human translatorMiguel de Cervantes · Don Quijote
Read the saying and check its sourcesMatching text in a source is not a philological review. AI translations are labeled as such.
Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love: there is a kind of it which pleases only the sight, but does not captivate the affections.Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 100
Read the saying and check its sourcesWording recorded in the collection; original language not established.
The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 164
Read the saying and check its sourcesWording recorded in the collection; original language not established.
Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword: neither doth the one burn nor the other wound him that comes not too near them.Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 295
Read the saying and check its sourcesWording recorded in the collection; original language not established.
There is no remembrance which time doth not obliterate, nor pain which death doth not put an end to.Miguel de Cervantes · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 325
Read the saying and check its sources