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Miguel de Cervantes [1547-1616] Spanish

Rank: 101
Novelist, Writer

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.

Courage, Good, Success, Best, Brainy, Design, Fear, Graduation, Humor, Knowledge, Learning, Life, Love, Nature, Parenting, Power, Time, Truth, Women

Quote	Tags	Rank
To be prepared is half the victory.	Success	101
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.		102
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.	Success	103
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.	Life	104
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.		105
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.		106
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.		107
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.	Courage	108
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.	Graduation, Learning, Time	109
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.	Courage	110
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.	Best, Good	111
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.		112
The eyes those silent tongues of love.	Love	113
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.	Good	114
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.	Truth	115
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.	Knowledge	116
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.		117
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.	Power	118
Virtue is the truest nobility.		119
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.		120
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.	Nature, Women	121
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.	Courage	122
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.	Brainy	123
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.		124
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.		125
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.		126
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.		201
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.		202
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.		203
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.		204
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.		205
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.		206
He had a face like a blessing.		207
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.	Design	208
Jests that give pains are no jests.		209
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.	Parenting	210
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.		211
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.		212
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.		213
That which costs little is less valued.		214
A closed mouth catches no flies.		215
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.		216
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.		217
Man appoints, and God disappoints.		218
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.		219
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.		220
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.		221
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.		222
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.		223
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.		224
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.		225
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.		226
A person dishonored is worst than dead.		301
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.	Fear	302
Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.		303
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.		304
Thou hast seen nothing yet.		305
'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.		306
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.		307
Every man is the son of his own works.		308
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.		309
He preaches well that lives well.		310
Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.		311
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.		312
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.		313
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.		314
Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.		315
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.		316
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.		317
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.		318
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.		319
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.	Humor	320
Fair and softly goes far.		321

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