Famous Quotes

Quotes by Miguel De Cervantes

• A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
• Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
• Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
• Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
• Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
• 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.
• God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
• He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
• I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
• Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
• Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
• No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
• One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.
• Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
• Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
• That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
• The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
• There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
• There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
• To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
• Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
• Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
• Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
• Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
• When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.