Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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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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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 little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
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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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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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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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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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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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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
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I have other fish to fry.
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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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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
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With life many things are remedied.