Cervantes Quotes

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

A man prepared has half fought the battle.

It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

It takes all sorts (to make a world

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.

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

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Jests that give pains are no jests.

Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.

Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.

God who sends the wound sends the medicine.

Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.

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.

Sing away sorrow, cast away care.

Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.

There is no love lost between us.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.

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.

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

That which costs little is less valued.

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

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

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

A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

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

Everything disturbs an absent lover.

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

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

Dine on little, and sup on less.

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.