Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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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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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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All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.
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Believe there are no limits but the sky.
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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
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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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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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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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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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Every production must resemble its author.
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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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Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
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A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
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When in doubt, lean to the side of mercy.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.