Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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There is no proverb that is not true.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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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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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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The proof of the pudding is the eating.
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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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Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.
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It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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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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The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.
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Little said is soon amended.
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As ill-luck would have it.
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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.