Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
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By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty.
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
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Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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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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Necessity urges desperate measures.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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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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When in doubt, lean to the side of mercy.
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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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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 nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
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A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.
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There is no proverb that is not true.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.
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Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
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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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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.