Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulen...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humo...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES To be prepared is half the victory.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Patience and shuffle the cards.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays t...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage lose...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 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 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his bod...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Te...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Jests that give pains are no jests.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revi...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear,...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without governmen...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Man appoints, and God disappoints.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than hi...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than ju...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compar...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Eat not garlic nor onions, lest they find out thy boorish origin by the smell; walk slowly and speak...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Fair and softly goes far.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts a...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these boo...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES That which costs little is less valued.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES He preaches well that lives well.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, There were but two families in the world, have-much and have...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd le...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrous...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Miracle me no miracles.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A person dishonored is worst than dead.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and natural...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES He had a face like a blessing.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The eyes those silent tongues of love.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
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...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail o...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Absence -- that common cure of love.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Faint heart never won fair lady.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as g...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Absence, that common cure of love.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with anot...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Virtue is the truest nobility.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unre...
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 Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, di...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging the...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Facts are the enemy of truth.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does ab...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Short sentences drawn from long experiences.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by h...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy tha...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wis...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Every man is the son of his own works.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the oth...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphab...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and the goal of a good intention was never reached through ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn f...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is i...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail o...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES though it don't make you laugh outright, it may chance to make ye draw in your Lips, and shew your T...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I never spoke one Word to him in my Life; yet I love him so dearly, that 'tis impossible I should li...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Preparation is half of the battle
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above wat...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.) [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) With life many things are remedied. (While there's life there's hope.) [Sp., Con la vida mucha...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Soul of fibre and heart of oak. [Sp., Alma de esparto y corazon de encina.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saav...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. [Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien p...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I s...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and w...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) All will come out in the washing. [Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The pen is the tongue of the mind. [Sp., La pluma es lengua del alma.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Within a stone's throw of it.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society. [Sp., Las necedades del rico por se...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. [Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son m...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Fear has many eyes. [Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) He had a face like a benediction (blessing).
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) In hell there is no retention. [Sp., Quien ha infierene nula es retencio.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. [Sp., Como el hace...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) He who sings frightens away his ills. [Sp., Quien canta, sus males espanta.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) It will be seen in the frying of the eggs. [Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The pitcher goes so often to the fountain (that if gets broken). [Sp., Tantas veces va el cantaril...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) To Rome for everything. [Sp., Y a Roma pro todo.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) When you are at Rome, do as you see. [Sp., Cuando a Roma fueres, haz como vieres.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) A man prepared has half fought the battle. [Sp., Hombre apercebido medio combatido.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I have other fish to fry.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Honesty is the best policy.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Make hay while the sun shines.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The more thou stir it the worse it will be.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Let the worst come to the worst.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA God who sends the wound sends the medicine. [Sp., Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) As ill-luck would have it.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to bet...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Heaven's help is better than early rising.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) God helps everyone with what is his own. [Sp., Ayude Dios con lo suyo a cada uno.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) More knave than fool.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. [Sp., Mas acompanados y panigu...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA)