Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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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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Dine on little, and sup on less.
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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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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Comparisons are odious.
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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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I have other fish to fry.
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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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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.
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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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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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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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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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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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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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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.