Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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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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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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There's no sauce in the world like hunger.
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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 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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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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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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Every production must resemble its author.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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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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One swallow alone does not make a summer.
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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
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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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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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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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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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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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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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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.