Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
– Miguel de Cervantes
By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
– Miguel de Cervantes
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that
plays that part.
– Miguel de Cervantes
An honest man’s word is as good as his bond.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Think before thou speakest.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
– Miguel de Cervantes
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.
– Miguel de Cervantes
No limits but the sky.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Experience, the universal mother of sciences.
– Miguel de Cervantes
‘Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs
in one basket.
– Miguel de Cervantes
My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
– Miguel de Cervantes
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
– Miguel de Cervantes
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful
recreation.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
– Miguel de Cervantes
The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Absence, that common cure of love.
– Miguel de Cervantes
That’s the nature of women… not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them
not.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Let every man mind his own business.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Honesty is the best policy.
– Miguel de Cervantes
A little in one’s own pocket is better than much in another man’s purse. ‘Tis good to keep a
nest egg. Every little makes a mickle.
– Miguel de Cervantes
My honor is dearer to me than my life.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Thank you for nothing.
– Miguel de Cervantes
There’s no sauce in the world like hunger.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Remember the old saying, “Faint heart never won fair lady.”
– Miguel de Cervantes
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
– Miguel de Cervantes
There’s not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.
– Miguel de Cervantes
He got the better of himself, and that’s the best kind of victory one can wish for.
– Miguel de Cervantes
A closed mouth catches no flies.
– Miguel de Cervantes
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
– Miguel de Cervantes
To give the devil his due.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
– Miguel de Cervantes
Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
– Miguel de Cervantes
‘Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Thou hast seen nothing yet.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferrable to the sword.
– Miguel de Cervantes
He casts a sheep’s eye at the wench.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as
in the other.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Let us forget and forgive injuries.
– Miguel de Cervantes
A person dishonored is worst than dead.
– Miguel de Cervantes
He preaches well that lives well.
– Miguel de Cervantes
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
– Miguel de Cervantes