Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

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.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

The pot calls the kettle black.

The famous Don Quixote de la Mancha, other wise called the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

There is no love lost, sir.

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

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. 'Tis good to keep a nest egg. Every little makes a mickle.

Short sentences drawn from long experience.

Ready to split his sides with laughing.

Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

Thank you for nothing.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Give me but that, and let the world rub, there I'll stick.

'Twill grieve me so to the heart that I shall cry my eyes out.

Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.

What a man has, so much he's sure of.

Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.

Forewarned forearmed.

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pains.