Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie.

He is as mad as a March hare.

He preaches well that lives well.

Let every man look before he leaps.

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

Let us make hay while the sun shines.

Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

Little said is soonest mended.

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

Man have to have friends even in hell.

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

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

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

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.

That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.