A person dishonored is worst than dead.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
- Miguel De Cervantes Quote
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
- Miguel De Cervantes Quote
Every man is the son of his own works.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
Fair and softly goes far.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
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.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
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 Quote
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
- Miguel De Cervantes Quote
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
- Miguel De Cervantes Quote
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
- Miguel De Cervantes Quote
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
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.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
- Miguel De Cervantes Quote
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Miguel De Cervantes Quote
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
- Miguel De Cervantes Quote
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
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.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
- Miguel De Cervantes Quote
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
Thou hast seen nothing yet.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
- Miguel De Cervantes Quote
'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
- Miguel De Cervantes Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
Virtue is the truest nobility.
- Miguel De Cervantes Quote
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
- Miguel de Cervantes Quote
