Quotes By Miguel De Cervantes

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

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.

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

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.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

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

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

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

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

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

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

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.