More Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

1. 'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cro ...
   
2. 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometime ...
   
3. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ...
   
4. A closed mouth catches no flies. ...
   
5. A good name is better than riches. ...
   
6. A little in one's own pocket is better than much i ...
   
7. A proverb is a short sentence based on long experi ...
   
8. A word to the wise is enough. ...
   
9. All is not gold that glitters. ...
   
10. Among the attributes of God, although they are all ...
    
11. An honest man's word is as good as his bond. ...
    
12. As ill-luck would have it. ...
    
13. As they use to say, spick and span new. ...
    
14. Be brief, for no discourse can please when too lon ...
    
15. Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. ...
    
16. Building castles in the air, and making yourself a ...
    
17. Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great ...
    
18. Diligence is the mother of good fortune. ...
    
19. Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it ...
    
20. Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a g ...
    
21. Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his ...
    
22. Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a ...
    
23. Facts are the enemy of truth. (Don Quixote) ...
    
24. Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under gr ...
    
25. Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a ...
    
26. God bears with the wicked, but not forever. ...
    
27. He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in ...
    
28. He is as mad as a March hare. ...
    
29. I can look sharp as well as another, and let me al ...
    
30. I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I ...
    
31. I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. ...
    
32. I must follow him through thick and thin. ...
    
33. I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. ...
    
34. I say that good painters imitated nature; but that ...
    
35. I shall be as secret as the grave. ...
    
36. I think it a very happy accident. ...
    
37. I was so free with him as not to mince the matter. ...
    
38. Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone. ...
    
39. In the night all cats are gray. ...
    
40. It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of ...
    
41. It is good to live and learn. ...
    
42. It is past all controversy that what costs dearest ...
    
43. It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-da ...
    
44. It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly ...
    
45. Let every man look before he leaps. ...
    
46. Let every man mind his own business. ...
    
47. Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or ...
    
48. Let us make hay while the sun shines. ...
    
49. Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that ...
    
50. Little said is soonest mended. ...
    
51. Love not what you are, but what you may become. ...
    
52. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the ...
    
53. Man have to have friends even in hell. ...
    
54. Many count their chickens before they are hatched ...
    
55. Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselv ...
    
56. My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduri ...
    
57. Never look for birds of this year in the nests of ...
    
58. Never stand begging for that which you have the po ...
    
59. One man scorned and covered with scars still strov ...
    
60. Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat ...
    
61. Sing away sorrow, cast away care. ...
    
62. Spare your breath to cool your porridge. ...
    
63. Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there ...
    
64. Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what tho ...
    
65. That's the nature of women not to love when we lov ...
    
66. The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ...
    
67. The brave man carves out his fortune, and every ma ...
    
68. The more thou stir it, the worse it will be. ...
    
69. The pen is the tongue of the mind. ...
    
70. The pot calls the kettle black. ...
    
71. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. ...
    
72. There are men that will make you books, and turn t ...
    
73. There are only two families in the world, the Have ...
    
74. There is a remedy for all things but death, which ...
    
75. There is a time for some things, and a time for al ...
    
76. There is no love lost between us. ...
    
77. They can expect nothing but their labour for their ...
    
78. Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scra ...
    
79. Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward. ...
    
80. Time ripens all things. No man is born wise. ...
    
81. Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all ...
    
82. Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and ...
    
83. What a man has, so much he is sure of. ...
    
84. When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where ma ...
    
85. When the head aches, all the members partake of th ...
    
86. When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome. ...
    
87. Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows. ...
    
88. Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase ...
    
89. Within a stone's throw of it. ...
    
90. You are a king by your own fireside, as much as an ...
    
91. You cannot eat your cake and have your cake. ...
    
92. You may as well expect pears from an elm. ...