Words matter. These are the best Miguel de Cervantes Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Well, there’s a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
Every man is the son of his own works.
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
There’s no taking trout with dry breeches.
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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.
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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.
Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Alas! all music jars when the soul’s out of tune.
A person dishonored is worst than dead.
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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.
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Fair and softly goes far.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
To be prepared is half the victory.
He preaches well that lives well.
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
Jests that give pains are no jests.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Thou hast seen nothing yet.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Man appoints, and God disappoints.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
He had a face like a blessing.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
