Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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He who gives early gives twice.
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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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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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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Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
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There's no sauce in the world like hunger.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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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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One swallow alone does not make a summer.
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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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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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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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"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.