Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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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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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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Man have to have friends even in hell.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
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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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Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.
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Too much sanity may be madness!
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Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned books, just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.
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Seek for good, but expect evil.
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Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued.
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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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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Every one in his own house and God in all of them.