Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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One swallow alone does not make a summer.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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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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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
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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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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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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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I'll turn over a new leaf.
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There's no sauce in the world like hunger.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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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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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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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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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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The eyes those silent tongues of love.
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In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
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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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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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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long.
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A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.