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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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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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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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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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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Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
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Good Christians should never avenge injuries.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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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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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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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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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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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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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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Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
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Everything disturbs an absent lover.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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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.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.