Quotes By Miguel De Cervantes

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Fair and softly goes far.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

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

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.