Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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Every production must resemble its author.
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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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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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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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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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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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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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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long.
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There's no sauce in the world like hunger.
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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.
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The eyes those silent tongues of love.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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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 blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
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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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In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
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I'll turn over a new leaf.