Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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A shy face is better than a forward heart.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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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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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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There's no love lost between us.
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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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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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He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
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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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Everything disturbs an absent lover.
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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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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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A stout heart breaks bad luck.
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That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.
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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.
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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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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
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Give the devil his due.
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Think before thou speakest.