Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

God helps everyone with what is his own.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

One swallow alone does not make a summer.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

There is no proverb that is not true.

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

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

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.

The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.

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

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

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, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one?s self.

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

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

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

Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.

All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

Miracle me no miracles.

Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time

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

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.

Many littles make a much.

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

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.

Believe there are no limits but the sky.

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

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

Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.

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

A shy face is better than a forward heart.

Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.

But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

All sorrows are less with bread.

I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.

I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.

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

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

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.