Quotes By Miguel De Cervantes

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

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

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.

Every man is the son of his own works.

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.

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

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

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