Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.