Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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He who gives early gives twice.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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Necessity urges desperate measures.
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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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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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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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When the headaches, all the members partake of the pain.
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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
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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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All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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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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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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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.