Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
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Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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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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Everything disturbs an absent lover.
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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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One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
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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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He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.