Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.
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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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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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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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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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There's no love lost between us.
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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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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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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
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Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
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There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.
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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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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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Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
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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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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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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.