Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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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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With life many things are remedied.
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Let us make hay while the sun shines.
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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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 little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
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Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
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A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.
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The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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Comparisons are odious.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
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Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote.
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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.