Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes

Dine on little, and sup on less.

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

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

One swallow alone does not make the summer.

Make hay while the sun shines.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

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

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

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

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.