Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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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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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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There is no proverb that is not true.
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Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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The proof of the pudding is the eating.
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By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.
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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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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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Comparisons are odious.
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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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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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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.
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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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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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued.
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Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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When in doubt, lean to the side of mercy.