Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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Every production must resemble its author.
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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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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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Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
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The eyes those silent tongues of love.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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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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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
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Believe there are no limits but the sky.
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Necessity urges desperate measures.
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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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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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By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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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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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.