Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Demasiada cordura puede ser la peor de las locuras, ver la vida como es y no como debería de ser.Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~

A woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.

All sorrows are less with bread.

There's a remedy for everything except death.

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason, so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

The reputation of a woman may be compared to a mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.

Love resolute Knows not the word ''impossibility;'' And though my suit Beset by endless obstacles I see, Yet no despair Shall hold me bound to earth while heaven is there.

Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end

Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes

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

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

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness its opposite never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

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

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.