Quotes By Miguel De Cervantes

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

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.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

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.

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

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

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

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

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

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

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

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

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

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

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

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

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

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

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

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

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

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

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.

Jests that give pains are no jests.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

That which costs little is less valued.