A closed mouth catches no flies.
Miguel De Cervantes

A person dishonored is worst than dead.
Miguel de Cervantes

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Miguel De Cervantes

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes

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

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
Miguel de Cervantes

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes

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

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Miguel de Cervantes

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Miguel De Cervantes


Every man is the son of his own works.
Miguel de Cervantes

Fair and softly goes far.
Miguel de Cervantes

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Miguel de Cervantes

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

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

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
Miguel de Cervantes

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
Miguel de Cervantes

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

He had a face like a blessing.
Miguel de Cervantes

He preaches well that lives well.
Miguel de Cervantes