Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes

Patience, and shuffle the cards.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

From pro's and con's they fell to a warmer way of disputing.

A finger in every pie.

The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life.

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand.

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

'Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.

My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name!

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

Everyone is as God made him, and often a good deal worse.

I begin to smell a rat.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?

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.

I don't know that ever I saw one in my born days.

For if he like a madman lived,At least he like a wise one died.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.