Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.
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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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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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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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Too much sanity may be madness!
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Everything disturbs an absent lover.
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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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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.
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The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.
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Think before thou speakest.
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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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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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That which costs little is less valued.