Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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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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Every production must resemble its author.
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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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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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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
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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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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.
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When in doubt, lean to the side of mercy.
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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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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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Believe there are no limits but the sky.
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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one's self.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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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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The eyes those silent tongues of love.