Quotes Miguel de Cervantes

A closed mouth catches no flies....

A person dishonored is worst than dead....

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a publ...

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience....

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune....

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their ...

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design i...

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its o...

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor...

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

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal ...

Every man is the son of his own works....

Fair and softly goes far....

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground....

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs h...

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory....

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dr...

God bears with the wicked, but not forever....

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

He had a face like a blessing....

He preaches well that lives well....

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses ...

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all ...

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably ap...

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows...