Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
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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.
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Little said is soon amended.
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Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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Until death it is all life.
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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
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Every one in his own house and God in all of them.
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To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.
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Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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It is good to live and learn.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave 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.