Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
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Man have to have friends even in hell.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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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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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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When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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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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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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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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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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Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.
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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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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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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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Honesty's the best policy.
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There's no love lost between us.
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Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
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The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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Every one in his own house and God in all of them.
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There are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls.