Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes

When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.

He who's never loved cannot be good.

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued

Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

God helps everyone with what is his own.

A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

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

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.

Every one in his own house and God in all of them.

Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.

Honesty is the best policy.

The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

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.

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