Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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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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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.
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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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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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Man have to have friends even in hell.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.
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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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Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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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.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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Everything disturbs an absent lover.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
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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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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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Too much sanity may be madness!