Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes

All that glisters is not gold.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

He who sings frightens away his ills.

All will come out in the washing.

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

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

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Said the pot to die kettle, "Get away, blackface."

Here is the devil-and-all to pay.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

He had a face like a benediction.

Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

As ill-luck would have it.

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

Spick and span new.