Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

Miguel de Cervantes

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• I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Drink
  • Alcohol
  • Weak

• If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Promise
  • Public
  • Officials

• I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Drink
  • Smoke
  • Stayed

• If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Smile

• The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Secret
  • Planning
  • German

• Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

  

  Walter Lang
  • God
  • Love
  • Promise

• My secret with kale is to add lots of sweet or sharp flavours to offset some of that grassy intensity.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Secret
  • Offset

• I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.

  

  Zola Budd
  • Home
  • Tea
  • Drink

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Die
  • Secret
  • Recipe

• Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • Secret
  • Media

• Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Never
  • Promise
  • Promises

• No one can keep a secret better than a child.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Child
  • Better
  • Secret

• I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Power

• A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Gold
  • Promise
  • Bank

• I must have a drink of breakfast.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Drink
  • Breakfast
  • Must

• We believe in the Australian promise; that if you work hard, you won't be left behind.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Promise

• I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Past
  • Drink
  • Alcohol

• You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting disappointed, over and over again, no wonder I don't recognize my little crayon picture. It appears to be me and it is and it is not.

  

  Virginia Euwer Wolff
  • Wonder
  • Feelings
  • Sorry

• I have trouble listening to what he that is, former Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he's talking.

  

  Alan Grayson
  • Listening

• I tend to play characters that aren't supposed to black or written black.

  

  Megalyn Echikunwoke
  • Black

• My Peace I leave with you.

  

  John the Apostle
  • Peace
  • Leave
  • With You

• Robespierre listened to me with terror. He grew pale and silent for some time. This interview confirmed me in the opinion that I always had of him, that he unites the knowledge of a wise senator with the integrity of a thoroughly good man and the zeal of a true patriot but that he is lacking as a statesman in clearness of vision and determination.

  

  Jean-Paul Marat
  • Time
  • Good
  • True

• Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Promise
  • Secret
  • Drink