Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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That which costs little is less valued.
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He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
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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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That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.
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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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All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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Where there's music there can be no evil.
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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Give the devil his due.
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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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Get out of harms way.
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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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Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
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She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
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Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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All is not gold that glisters.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.