Quotes By Miguel De Cervantes

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

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

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

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

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

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

He preaches well that lives well.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

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

Jests that give pains are no jests.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

That which costs little is less valued.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

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

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.