Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
Fair and softly goes far.
Honesty is the best policy.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
No limits but the sky.
The pot calls the kettle black.
Thou hast seen nothing yet.
Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.
Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.
Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.
Every man is the son of his own works.
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
The best sauce in the world is hunger.
Let us forget and forgive injuries.
I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
Let every man mind his own business.
By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
He who sings frightens away his ills.
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat some time or other.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Variant: Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where.
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
Variant: From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
Variant: The pen is the tongue of the mind.
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.
My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
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.
I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action when there is more reason to fear than to hope. 'Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.
Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes.
Here lies a gentleman bold
Who was so very brave
He went to lengths untold,
And on the brink of the gave
Death had on him no hold.
By the world he set small store
He frightened it to the core
Yet somehow, by Fate's plan,
Though he'd lived a crazy man,
When he died he was sane once more.
While I sleep I have no fear, nor hope, nor trouble, nor glory. God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all man’s thoughts, the food that cures all hunger, the water that quenches all thirst, the fire that warms the cold, the cold that cools the heart; the common coin, in short, that can purchase all things, the balancing weight that levels the shepherd with the king, and the simple with the wise.
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