Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
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Delay always breeds danger.
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Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.
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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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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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Many littles make a much.
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The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
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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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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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He preaches well that lives well.
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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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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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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.
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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.