Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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When the headaches, all the members partake of the pain.
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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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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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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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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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
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The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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When you are at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long.
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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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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.