Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.
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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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Every one in his own house and God in all of them.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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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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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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I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their double-dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections.
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Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time.
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We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
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It is good to live and learn.
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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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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.