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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

Honesty's the best policy. - Miguel de Cervantes Liars prosper. - Anonymous — Stephen King

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

Cervantes said the journey's better than the end. Practices, to me, were the journey. — John Wooden

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

[He] is not going to exit to applause, even if the entire human race should favor him. — 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