Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

For if he like a madman lived,
At least he like a wise one died.

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

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

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

He ... got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wish for.

He has done like Orbaneja, the painter of Ubeda, who, being asked what he painted, answered, "Whatever it may turn out." And if he chanced to paint a cock, he wrote under it, "This is a cock," lest the people should take it for a fox.

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

Rome was not built in a day.

Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.

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

I shall be as secret as the grave.

There is no greater folly in this world than for a man to despair.

I think it a very happy accident.

As they use to say, spick and span new.

Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.