Miguel De Cervantes
61 quotations
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Patience and shuffle the cards.
To be prepared is half the victory.
Thou hast seen nothing yet.
A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
He preaches well that lives well.
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.