Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Comparisons are odious.
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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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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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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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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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Let us forget and forgive injuries.
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I have other fish to fry.
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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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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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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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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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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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Dine on little, and sup on less.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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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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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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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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The proof of the pudding is the eating.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.