Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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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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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
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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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Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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Every one in his own house and God in all of them.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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It is good to live and learn.
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There's no love lost between us.
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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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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 tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.
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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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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.