Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes

Jests that give pains are no jests.

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

The man who fights for his ideals is alive.

A man prepared has half fought the battle.

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

Other men's pains are easily borne.

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.

Let every man look before he leaps.

Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.

All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

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

What a man has, so much he is sure of.

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.