Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does ab...
Show MoreAll will come out in the washing.
All sorrows are bearable if there is bread.
Honesty is the best policy.
It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
Let us forget and forgive injuries.
As ill-luck would have it.
There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the ha...
Show MoreTell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
To be prepared is half the victory.
One swallow alone does not make the summer.
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
A stout heart breaks bad luck.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for h...
Show MoreAmong the attributes of God although they are all equal mercy shines with even more brilliancy tha...
Show MoreNe'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
All that glisters is not gold.
Take away the cause and the effect ceases.
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he who loses his courage loses...
Show MoreTruth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above wat...
Show MoreIn order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Mum is the word.
Dine on little and sup on less.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate nor pain which death does not terminate.
Said the pot to die kettle "Get away blackface."
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they ...
Show MoreWhen thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
He who sings frightens away his ills.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.
There's no love lost between us.
The brave man carves out his fortune and every man is the sum of his own works.
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unre...
Show MoreDelay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.
Spick and span new.
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, di...
Show MoreDelay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
He had a face like a benediction.
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humo...
Show MoreUrgent necessity prompts many to do things.
He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses ...
Show MoreThey who lose today may win tomorrow.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool and he must be no simpleton that plays t...
Show MoreProverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other...
Show MoreEvery one is as God made him and often a great deal worse.
