Top 500 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

52. “Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

53. “Fair and softly goes far.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

54. “Experience is the universal mother of sciences.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

55. “Como no estas experimentado en las cosas del mundo, todas las cosas que tienen algo de dificultad te parecen imposibles.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

56. “Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

57. “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

58. “Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

59. “Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

60. “En un lugar de la Mancha de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme...”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

62. “Amor y deseo son dos cosas diferentes; que no todo lo que se ama se desea, ni todo lo que se desea se ama.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

63. “Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

64. “There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

65. “An honest man’s word is as good as his bond.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

66. “There is remedy for all things except death – Don Quixote De La Mancha.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

67. “I never thrust my nose into other men’s porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

68. “Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

69. “The eyes those silent tongues of love.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

70. “Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

71. “It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

72. “When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

73. “Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

74. “You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

75. “The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason, so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

76. “There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

77. “I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

79. “Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

80. “A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

81. “The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

82. “My reason is now free and clear, rid of the dark shadows of ignorance that my unhappy constant study of those detestable books of chivalry cast over it. Now I see through their absurdities and deceptions, and it only grieves me that this destruction of my illusions has come so late that it leaves me no time to make some amends by reading other books that might be a light to my soul.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

83. “Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

84. “Faint heart ne’er won fair lady.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

85. “It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

86. “The wicked are always ungrateful.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

87. “Love not what you are but only what you may become.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

88. “One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

89. “The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

90. “Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

91. “Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

92. “Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

93. “Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

94. “Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

95. “A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

96. “The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

97. “In hell there is no retention.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

98. “Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

99. “In short, he became so absorbed in his books that he spent his nights from sunset to sunrise, and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

100. “Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra