Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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One swallow alone does not make a summer.
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But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
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A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.
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In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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I'll turn over a new leaf.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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There's no sauce in the world like hunger.
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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
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Necessity urges desperate measures.
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I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.