Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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Many littles make a much.
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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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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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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Let the worst come to the worst.
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The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.
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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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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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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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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.
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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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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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I'll turn over a new leaf.
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
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It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.