Miguel De Cervantes quotes

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

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

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.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

To be prepared is half the victory.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

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

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

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.