Miguel De Cervantes Quotes

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

With life many things are remedied.

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

True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does 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.

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

Honesty's the best policy.

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

All is not gold that glisters.

Until death it is all life.

When you are at Rome, do as you see.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

A good name is better than bags of gold.

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

God exalts the man who humbles himself.

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

In the night all cats are gray.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

Man have to have friends even in hell.

A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

Think before thou speakest.

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

Delay always heeds danger.

You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

As ill-luck would have it.

Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

All will come out in the washing.

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

A man prepared has half fought the battle.

It takes all sorts (to make a world

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.