Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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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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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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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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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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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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One swallow alone does not make a summer.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause.
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
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Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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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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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."