Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
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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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In the night all cats are gray.
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker.
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I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.
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I shall be as secret as the grave.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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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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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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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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Health and cheerfulness make beauty.
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Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.
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I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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Fair and softly goes far.
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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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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.