Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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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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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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Think before thou speakest.
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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Let every man mind his own business.
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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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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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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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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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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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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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.