Cervantes Quotes
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
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.
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
