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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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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He preaches well that lives well.
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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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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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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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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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When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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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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I'll turn over a new leaf.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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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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The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.
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A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
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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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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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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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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.