Miguel De Cervantes Quotes

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~

Anyone who is ignorant, even a lord and prince, can and should be counted as one of the mob.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art

...in the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.

We know already ample experience that it does not require much cleverness or much learning to be a governor, for there are a hundred round about us that scarcely know how to read.

A Man Without Honoris Worse than Dead.

It seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Every one is as God made him and often a great deal worse.

Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.

He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he who loses his courage loses all.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Said the pot to die kettle "Get away blackface."

Here is the devil-and-all to pay.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

He had a face like a benediction.

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate nor pain which death does not terminate.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.

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

Take away the cause and the effect ceases.

Spick and span new.

Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.

Dine on little and sup on less.

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

There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.

All sorrows are bearable if there is bread.

One swallow alone does not make the summer.

Ne'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.

Mum is the word.

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.

He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

To be prepared is half the victory.