Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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There's no love lost between us.
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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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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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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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Little said is soon amended.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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It is good to live and learn.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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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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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
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Every one in his own house and God in all of them.
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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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For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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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.