Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Delay always breeds danger.
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And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.
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Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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He preaches well that lives well.
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Many littles make a much.
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The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.
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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.
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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.