Top 500 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

2. “Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

3. “Believe there are no limits but the sky.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

4. “The proof of the pudding is the eating.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

5. “Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

6. “Honesty’s the best policy.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

7. “Until death it is all life.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

8. “The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

9. “Facts are the enemy of truth.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

10. “The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

11. “I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

12. “He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

13. “In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

14. “Where one door shuts another opens.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

15. “Where there’s music there can be no evil.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

16. “Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

17. “Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

18. “Thank you for nothing.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

19. “Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

20. “All sorrows are less with bread.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

21. “Let us make hay while the sun shines.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

22. “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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23. “Every dog has his day.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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24. “He who sings scares away his woes.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

25. “They who lose today may win tomorrow.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

26. “To dream the impossible dream, that is my quest.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

27. “Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

28. “Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

29. “A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30. “The man who fights for his ideals is alive.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

31. “Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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32. “Tomorrow will be a new day.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

33. “Patience and shuffle the cards.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

34. “Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35. “For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

36. “Beware, gentle knight – the greatest monster of them all is reason.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

37. “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.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

38. “Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

39. “Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

40. “A great man who is vicious will be a great example of vice and a rich man who is not generous will be merely a miserly beggar, for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing it but by spending it, and not by spending it as he pleases but by knowing how to spend it well.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

41. “The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

42. “I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

43. “Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

44. “Virtue is the truest nobility.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

45. “It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

46. “There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

47. “What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman’s mind?”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

48. “Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man’s thoughts.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

49. “That is the nature of women,” said Don Quixote. “They reject the man who loves them and love the man who despises them.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

50. “Hunger is the best sauce in the world.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra