Top 25 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes of 437 - Page 6

The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.

The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.

Heart, Eating, Stomach

"Don Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, II. 6, 1605-1615.

To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.

Miguel de Cervantes

Summer, Spring, Moving

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

Mother, Perseverance, Men

"Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, part II, book IV, chapter 38., 1605-1615.

Comparisons are odious.

Miguel de Cervantes

Guidance, Standards, Comparison

Miguel de Cervantes (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Miguel de Cervantes (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

Miguel de Cervantes

Justice, Politics, Economy

Miguel de Cervantes (2000). “Don Quixote”, p.1073, Modern Library

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

Miguel de Cervantes

Mind, Wit And Humor, Wit

For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

Miguel de Cervantes

Writing, Action, Born

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1990). “Don Quixote”

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Love, Running, Morning

Miguel De Cervantes (1930). “Don Quixote”

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Miguel de Cervantes

Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.270, Wordsworth Editions

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

Miguel de Cervantes

Too Much, Good Things, Too Much Of A Good Thing

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.36, Wordsworth Editions

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Men, Tears, Seduction

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.242, Wordsworth Editions

Think before thou speakest.

Miguel de Cervantes

Thinking

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.112

The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Mirrors, Shining, May

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1866). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.212

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

Miguel de Cervantes

Poetry, May, Historian

Miguel de CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1819). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.30

The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.

Miguel de Cervantes

Divorce, Funny Divorce, Worst

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.

Miguel de Cervantes

Love Is, Men, Two

Miguel de Cervantes (2000). “Don Quixote”, p.1050, Modern Library

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.

Miguel de Cervantes

Dream, Lying, May

Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.

Miguel de Cervantes

Blessed, Sleep, Men

Every dog has his day.

Miguel de Cervantes

Dog, Fun

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1864). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha”, p.208

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.

Miguel de Cervantes

Humorous, Men, Made

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

Miguel de Cervantes

Littles, Riches, Liable

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.73