Miguel de Cervantes
You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.Collection: Thinking
Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.Collection: Smell
Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.Collection: Patience
For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.Collection: School
Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.Collection: Book
For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.Collection: Wise
Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.Collection: Humorous
Soul of fibre and heart of oak.Collection: Heart
Get out of harms way.Collection: Advice
Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.Collection: Evil
Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.Collection: May
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.Collection: Fear
They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.Collection: Feelings
All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.Collection: Sorrow
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.Collection: Knights
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.Collection: Evil
Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.Collection: Ornaments
Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.Collection: Luck
All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.Collection: Sleep
'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.Collection: Death
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportableCollection: 4th Of July
I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.Collection: Intelligent
True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.Collection: Lying
Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.Collection: Men
Delay always heeds danger.Collection: Delay
The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.Collection: Veterans Day
Little said is soon amended.Collection: Littles
I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.Collection: Desire
But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.Collection: Gathering
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.Collection: Hilarious
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.Collection: Heart
Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.Collection: Giants
It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.Collection: Heart
What is bought is cheaper than a gift.Collection: Generosity
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.Collection: Food
Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.Collection: Race
Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.Collection: Crazy
Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.Collection: Sweet
There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.Collection: Men
Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.Collection: Able
There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.Collection: Death
The absent feel and fear every ill.Collection: Absence
Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.Collection: Uncles
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.Collection: Get Well
Miracle me no miracles.Collection: Miracle
The proof of the pudding is the eating.Collection: Pudding
God helps everyone with what is his own.Collection: Helping
Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.Collection: Spring