Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.
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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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The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.
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Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
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"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."
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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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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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He preaches well that lives well.
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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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I'll turn over a new leaf.
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Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.
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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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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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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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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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He who gives early gives twice.
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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.