Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
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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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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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When in doubt, lean to the side of mercy.
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There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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When the headaches, all the members partake of the pain.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
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It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.
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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
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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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All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
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Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
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Dine on little, and sup on less.
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God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
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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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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.