Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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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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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long.
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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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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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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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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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He who gives early gives twice.
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
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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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That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself.
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With life many things are remedied.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.