Miguel de Cervantes Quotes:
A closed mouth catches no flies.
Miguel de Cervantes
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Miguel de Cervantes
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.
Miguel de Cervantes
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Miguel de Cervantes
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Fair and softly goes far.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Miguel de Cervantes
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
Miguel de Cervantes
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
Miguel de Cervantes
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
Miguel de Cervantes
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
Miguel de Cervantes
He preaches well that lives well.
Miguel de Cervantes
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Miguel de Cervantes
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Miguel de Cervantes
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Miguel de Cervantes
Jests that give pains are no jests.
Miguel de Cervantes
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Miguel de Cervantes
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Miguel de Cervantes
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Miguel de Cervantes
Man appoints, and God disappoints.
Miguel de Cervantes
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Miguel de Cervantes
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.
Miguel de Cervantes
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