Miguel de Cervantes

Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.

— Miguel de Cervantes

There is no proverb that is not true.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Thank you for nothing.

— Miguel de Cervantes

The proof is in the pudding.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

— Miguel de Cervantes

One swallow alone does not make a summer.

— Miguel de Cervantes

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

— Miguel de Cervantes

He had a face like a blessing.

— Miguel de Cervantes

One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.

— Miguel de Cervantes

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.

— Miguel de Cervantes

It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.

— Miguel de Cervantes

The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

— Miguel de Cervantes

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

— Miguel de Cervantes

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

— Miguel de Cervantes

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own…

— Miguel de Cervantes

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

— Miguel de Cervantes

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold,…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break…

— 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

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy…

— Miguel de Cervantes

I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither…

— Miguel de Cervantes

If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have…

— Miguel de Cervantes

I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“experienced in the things of the world, everything that has some difficulty about it seems to thee impossible; but time will pass,…

— Miguel de Cervantes

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the…

— Miguel de Cervantes

The absent feel and fear every ill.

— Miguel de Cervantes

A good name is better than bags of gold.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Necessity urges desperate measures.

— Miguel de Cervantes

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Seek for good, but expect evil.

— Miguel de Cervantes

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

— Miguel de Cervantes

There is no love lost between us.

— Miguel de Cervantes