Miguel de Cervantes
Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.Collection: Pieces
Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.Collection: Change
Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.Collection: Stones
Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.Collection: Sleep
They must needs go whom the Devil drives.Collection: Devil
Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.Collection: Fire
Tomorrow will be a new day.Collection: Future
Delay always breeds danger.Collection: Anger
Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.Collection: Wise
He who gives early gives twice.Collection: Giving
Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.Collection: Death
Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.Collection: Food
But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.Collection: Writing
No man is more than another unless he does more than another.Collection: Men
There's no sauce in the world like hunger.Collection: Funny
For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.Collection: Writing
When in doubt, lean to the side of # mercy .Collection: Doubt
Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.Collection: Sin
For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.Collection: Vanity
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.Collection: Home
Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.Collection: Battle
Think before thou speakest.Collection: Thinking
He who sings frightens away his ills.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Crazy
My honor is dearer to me than my life.Collection: Honor
The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.Collection: Art
Other men's pains are easily borne.Collection: Pain
The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.Collection: Wise
Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.Collection: Devil
Can we ever have too much of a good thing?Collection: Too Much
Too much sanity may be madness!Collection: May
Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.Collection: Taken
The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.Collection: Honor
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.Collection: Trust
My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.Collection: Memories
There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.Collection: Love Is
All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.Collection: Enough
The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.Collection: Divorce
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.Collection: Uplifting
Let every man mind his own business.Collection: Men
True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.Collection: Lying
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.Collection: Dream
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.Collection: Shoes
Let every man look before he leaps.Collection: Men
I have other fish to fry.Collection: Lakes
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.Collection: Thee
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.Collection: Mother
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.Collection: Writing
there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house fallsCollection: Fall