Inspirational Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes · Page 3

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother…

— Miguel de Cervantes

One swallow alone does not make a summer.

— Miguel de Cervantes

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

[To] turn poet, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

— Miguel de Cervantes

A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

— Miguel de Cervantes

As ill-luck would have it.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Where one door shuts another opens.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.

— Miguel de Cervantes

A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

— Miguel de Cervantes

When you are at Rome, do as you see.

— Miguel de Cervantes

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Every production must resemble its author.

— Miguel de Cervantes

When one door is shut, another opens.

— Miguel de Cervantes

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.

— Miguel de Cervantes

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.

— Miguel de Cervantes

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

— Miguel de Cervantes