Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.’ Yes,’ responded Sancho, ‘but I’ve heard that there are more friars in heaven than knights errant.’ That is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘because the number of religious is greater than the number of knights.’ There are many who are errant,’ said Sancho. Many,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but few who deserve to be called knights.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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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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Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
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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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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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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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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds; and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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Little said is soon amended.
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Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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Every one in his own house and God in all of them.
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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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Honesty's the best policy.
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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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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
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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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Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.