Don Quixote statue in La Solana (Ciudad Real). Photograph of (c) Carlos Díaz-Cano Arévalo.
Romeo and Juliet. Painting of Ford Madox Brown, 1870.
Book Day, San Jordi. Books and roses. Millions of readers, writers, proofreaders, translators, librarians and anyone who is happy with a book in their hands they are celebrating today. Around the world.
So on this great day of letters I choose and share those phrases by Don Miguel de Cervantes and Mr. William Shakespeare. Because who can get tired of this pair of universal geniuses? However, there are still staff who have not read them, oddly enough. See if these little drops of your mastery encourage you to put on.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote
“To dream the impossible dream, to fight against the impossible enemy, to run where the brave did not dare, to reach the unreachable star. That is my path and my harmony. "
"O memory, mortal enemy of my rest!"
"The virtue is persecuted more by the bad than loved by the good."
"Ingratitude is the daughter of pride."
"The reason for the unreason that is made to my reason, in such a way my reason weakens, that I rightly complain about your beauty."
"Eat little and eat less, the health of the whole body is forged in the stomach office."
“Blood is inherited and virtue is aquista; and virtue alone is worth what blood is not worth. "
"This one that they call Fortune is a drunken and cantankerous woman, and above all, blind, and thus she does not see what she is doing, nor does she know who she is knocking down."
Sorrows were not made for beasts, but for men; but if men feel them too much, they become beasts. "
“The pen is the language of the soul; whatever the concepts that were engendered in her, such will be her writings ”.
"Blessed is he to whom heaven gave a piece of bread, with no obligation to thank someone other than heaven itself!"
"For freedom, as well as for honor, life can and should be ventured."
"Trust in time, which tends to give sweet outlets to many bitter difficulties."
"I drink when I feel like it, and when I don't have it and when I get it, because I don't seem picky or spoiled."
"The year that is abundant with poetry, it is usually hungry."
William Shakespeare
"The love of the young is not in the heart, but in the eyes." (Romeo and Juliet)
"He who goes too fast comes as late as he who goes too slow." (Romeo and Juliet)
«Dying, sleeping ... sleeping? Maybe dream ». (Hamlet)
«First of all, be true to yourself. And so, as true as night follows day, you will find that you cannot lie to anyone. (Hamlet)
"To be or not to be, that is the question". (Hamlet)
"Assume a virtue if you don't have it." (Hamlet)
"We know what we are, not what we can be." (Hamlet)
"See that sometimes the devil deceives us with the truth, and brings us doom wrapped in gifts that seem innocent." (Macbeth)
«Losing sleep, unravel the intricate web of pain; sleep, rest from all fatigue; I nourish the sweetest that is served at the table of life. " (Macbeth)
«Life is nothing but a shadow in motion; a bad actor who struts and fidgets on stage for an hour and then is never heard from again: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of noise and fury, which means nothing. (Macbeth)
"At birth, we cry because we entered this vast asylum." (The Lear King)
Love, blind as it is, prevents lovers from seeing the funny nonsense they commit. " (The merchant of Venice)
"Brevity is the soul of ingenuity." (The Merchant of Venice)
«In human things there is a tide that, if taken in time, leads to fortune; for those who let it pass, the journey of life is lost in shoals and misfortunes ». (Julius Caesar)
«My generosity is as immense as the sea, and deep as he is my love; the more I give you, the more I have, for both are infinite. (Poems)