Cervantes Quotes

Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.

Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.

Get out of harms way.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.

There is no proverb that is not true.

I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.

Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.

Little said is soon amended.

Health and cheerfulness make beauty

What is bought is cheaper than a gift.

The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.

True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

A shy face is better than a forward heart.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.

Behind the cross is the devil.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

He that gives quickly gives twice.

He who reforms, God assists.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

He who's never loved cannot be good.

Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.

Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

Every one in his own house and God in all of them.

One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.

Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.

What a man has, so much he is sure of.

It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.

It requires a long time to know anyone.

Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued

In hell there is no retention.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

Miracle me no miracles.

Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.

And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.

The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.