Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Miguel de Cervantes

Impossible, Order, Attempt

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Miguel de Cervantes

Good, Wish, Laziness

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Miguel de Cervantes

Greatest, Within, Combat

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes

Experience, Long, Short

That which costs little is less valued.
Miguel de Cervantes

Less, Costs, Valued

The eyes those silent tongues of love.
Miguel de Cervantes

Love, Eyes, Silent

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Miguel de Cervantes

Wise, Found, Wealth

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Miguel de Cervantes

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
Miguel de Cervantes

Taking, Dry, Trout

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Miguel de Cervantes

Time, Wise, Born

To be prepared is half the victory.
Miguel de Cervantes

Victory, Half, Prepared

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de Cervantes

Between, Lies, Cowardice

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

Public, Private, Sin

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

Music, Soul, Tune

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

May, Same, Keep

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

Design, Great, Often

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

Great, Him, Made

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

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

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
Miguel de Cervantes

Experience, Mother, True

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
Miguel de Cervantes

Wrong, Miss, Forever

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Miguel de Cervantes

Good, Sea, Water

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Miguel de Cervantes

Sorrow, Happens, Pure

Jests that give pains are no jests.
Miguel de Cervantes

Give, Pains, Jests

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Miguel de Cervantes

Life, Liberty, Honor

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Born: September 29, 1547

Died: April 23, 1616

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