Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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Fair and softly goes far.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
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Too much sanity may be madness!
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Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
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Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.
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Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued.
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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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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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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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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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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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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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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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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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Little said is soon amended.
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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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Seek for good, but expect evil.