Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."
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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.
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He preaches well that lives well.
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When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.
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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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Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.
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And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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Nor has his death the world deceived than his wondrous life surprised; if he like a madman lived least he like a wise one died.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.
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I'll turn over a new leaf.
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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There's no sauce in the world like hunger.
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A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
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Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
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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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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.