Little said is soon amended.

Miguel de Cervantes · Don Quixote, pt. I, III, 10, p. 184

Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.

Miguel de Cervantes · Don Quixote, pt. I, IV, 10, p. 325

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

Miguel de Cervantes · Don Quixote, pt. I, I, 6, p. 37

Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.

Miguel de Cervantes · Don Quixote, pt. II, III, 6, p. 479

More Wisdom Quotes

To write all things in a book is to leave a sword in the hands of a child.

Clement of Alexandria · The Stromata (Miscellanies), bk. 1

Something creative that has been done with love is to have done good.

Albert Einstein · The source reads: “Doing “good” (in an ethical sense) is in reality difficult to achieve. To me, something creative that has been done with love is to have done “good.”” · To Valentine Bulgakov, 4 November 1931.

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease can be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must begin somewhere.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 25 May 1911

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“Little said is soon amended.”

“Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.”

“Can we ever have too much of a good thing?”

“Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.”

“To write all things in a book is to leave a sword in the hands of a child.”

“Something creative that has been done with love is to have done good.”

“The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease can be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must begin somewhere.”