Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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There is no proverb that is not true.
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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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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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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty.
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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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The proof of the pudding is the eating.
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The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.
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I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
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Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
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All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
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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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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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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 fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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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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In the night all cats are gray.