Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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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 is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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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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There's no sauce in the world like hunger.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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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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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.
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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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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."
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One swallow alone does not make a summer.
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.