Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
Miguel de Cervantes

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

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel De Cervantes

That which costs little is less valued.
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

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Miguel De Cervantes

The eyes those silent tongues of love.
Miguel de Cervantes

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

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
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

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

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Miguel de Cervantes

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
Miguel de Cervantes

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
Miguel De Cervantes

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

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
Miguel de Cervantes

Thou hast seen nothing yet.
Miguel de Cervantes

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

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
Miguel De Cervantes

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
Miguel de Cervantes