Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
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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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He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.
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Give the devil his due.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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When you are at Rome, do as you see.
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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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We must not stand upon trifles.
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
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Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.
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All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
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God helps everyone with what is his own.
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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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Get out of harms way.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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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.