Top 447 Quotes & Sayings by Miguel de Cervantes - Page 2

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Jests that give pains are no jests.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

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.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

That which costs little is less valued.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

He had a face like a blessing.

Until death it is all life.

When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Seek for good, but expect evil.

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

Love not what you are but only what you may become.

Patience and shuffle the cards.

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.

Let us make hay while the sun shines.

Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.

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.

Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.

Believe there are no limits but the sky.

God exalts the man who humbles himself.

In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.

A good name is better than bags of gold.

The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

The man who fights for his ideals is alive.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.

Everything disturbs an absent lover.

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

Many littles make a much.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Give the devil his due.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.