Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.
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He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.
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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.
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Every dog has his day.
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The wicked are always ungrateful.
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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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Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the first lasted him from night to morning, indicating a sound body and a mind free from care; but his master, being unable to sleep himself awakened him, saying, "I am amazed, Sancho, at the torpor of thy soul; it seems as if thou wert made of marble or brass, insensible of emotion or sentiment!
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My honor is dearer to me than my life.
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Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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Thou hast seen nothing yet.
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All is not gold that glisters.
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You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
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For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.
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There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.
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Miracle me no miracles.
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Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.