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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
— Miguel De Cervantes
He who's never loved cannot be good.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Your grace's words have been like manure spread on the barren ground of my dry and uncultivated mind.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
— Miguel De Cervantes
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
In hell there is no retention.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
— Miguel De Cervantes
I wouldn't dare to put a pinpoint between a woman's yes and no.there wouldn't be room
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Art does not surpass nature but perfects it.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Bien predica quien bien vive.He who lives well is the best preacher. — Miguel De Cervantes
At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say ...
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
— Miguel De Cervantes
You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Friend to friend no more draws near, and the jester's cane has become a spear
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Heaven's help is better than early rising.
— Miguel De Cervantes
I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.
— Miguel De Cervantes
All sorrows are less with bread.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Since Cervantes's magnificent Knight's quest has cosmological scope and reverberation, no object seems beyond reach.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
A travesty that for coarseness, vulgarity, and buffoonery is almost unexampled even in the literature of that day.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.
— Lorna Dee Cervantes
This, however, is of but little importance to our tale; it will be enough not to stray a hair's breadth from the truth in the telling of it.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Where there's music there can be no evil.
— Cervantes Instituto
A king's crumb is worth more than a lord's loaf." 'This
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
— Miguel De Cervantes
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. Miguel de Cervantes
— Cecilia London
Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
— Miguel De Cervantes
I swear to hold my tongue about it till the end of your worship's days, and God grant I may be able to let it out tomorrow
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
— Miguel De Cervantes
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
— Miguel De Cervantes
You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
— Miguel De Cervantes
There's no sauce in the world like hunger.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
It's madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.
— Knight Of The Woeful Countenance
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.
— Miguel De Cervantes
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
— Miguel De Cervantes
He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is ...
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
— Lord Byron
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
— Miguel De Cervantes
If I were you, I'd stick to the palm reading. Now, there's a trick that won't paralyze you from the neck down.
— Angela Cervantes
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
— Miguel De Cervantes
Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Honesty's the best policy.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Thy enterprises speed, Didst thou the light mid Libya's sands Or Jaca's rocks first see?
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical; but the second is almost infinitely richer.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
— Miguel De Cervantes
In spite of these three obstacles, Menard's fragmentary _Quixote_ is more subtle than Cervantes'.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
— Miguel De Cervantes
A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Man have to have friends even in hell.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Little said is soon amended.
— Miguel De Cervantes
For hope is always born at the same time as love ...
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Other men's pains are easily borne.
— Miguel De Cervantes
The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Thank you for nothing.
— Miguel De Cervantes
The journey is better than the inn".
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
There are many theologians who are not good in the pulpit but are excellent at recognizing the lacks or excesses of those who preach.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
— Miguel De Cervantes
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Not only a countess but a nymph of the greenwood,
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
— Miguel De Cervantes
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
— Miguel De Cervantes
He finally resolved to call the horse Rocinante.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Your grace, come back, Senor Don Quixote, I swear to God you're charging sheep !
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
We are all as God made us and frequently much worse.
— Miguel De Cervantes
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Men have to have friends even in hell.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
— Miguel De Cervantes
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
— Miguel De Cervantes
The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
— Miguel De Cervantes
"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."
— Miguel De Cervantes
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
— Miguel De Cervantes
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Mountains breed learned men and shepherds' huts house philosophers.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
He had a face like a blessing.
— Miguel De Cervantes
I shall be as secret as the grave.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
— Aubrey F.G. Bell
Windmills were giants, and the monks' mules dromedaries, flocks of sheep armies of enemies,
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
God helps everyone with what is his own.
— Miguel De Cervantes
I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long.
— Nathaniel Parker
Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
— Miguel De Cervantes
It is the privilege and charm of beauty to win the heart and secure good-will,
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
He'd just fallen off a rock and got a little bit spifflicated in the ribs.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.
— Miguel De Cervantes
And many folks think there's bacon when there's not even a hook to hang it on.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra