Top 500 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (2024 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. “Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

5. “Honesty’s the best policy.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— 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. “All sorrows are less with bread.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

29. “Tomorrow will be a new day.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

32. “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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

40. “Virtue is the truest nobility.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

46. “Patience and shuffle the cards.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

47. “He preaches well that lives well.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

48. “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

49. “The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

50. “That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra