Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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The eyes those silent tongues of love.
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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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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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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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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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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
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Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.
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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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Believe there are no limits but the sky.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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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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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.