Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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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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Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Necessity urges desperate measures.
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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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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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Where one door shuts another opens.
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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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It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
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When the headaches, all the members partake of the pain.
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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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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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
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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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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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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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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.