Quotes By Miguel De Cervantes

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

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

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.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.