Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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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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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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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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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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With life many things are remedied.
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He preaches well that lives well.
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One swallow alone does not make a summer.
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Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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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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Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.
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A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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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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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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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.