Miguel de Cervantes

Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

— Miguel de Cervantes

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

— Miguel de Cervantes

A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.

— Miguel de Cervantes

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“With these meager scraps of Latin and the like, you may perhaps be taken for a scholar, which is honorable and profitable…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

— Miguel de Cervantes

For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not…

— Miguel de Cervantes

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.

— Miguel de Cervantes

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

— Miguel de Cervantes

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in…

— Miguel de Cervantes

When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“for a knight-errant without love was like a tree without leaves or fruit, or a body without a soul.”

— Miguel De Cervantes

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

— Miguel de Cervantes

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

— 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

Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.”

— Miguel de Cervantes

He who loses wealth loses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses his courage loses all.

— Miguel De Cervantes

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than…

— Miguel de Cervantes

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Never ask as a favour what thou canst take by force;' though it would fit better to say, 'A clear escape is…

— Miguel De Cervantes