Quotes By Miguel De Cervantes

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

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

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

He preaches well that lives well.

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.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Jests that give pains are no jests.

That which costs little is less valued.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

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.

He had a face like a blessing.

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

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

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

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.