Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
– “A closed mouth catches no flies.”
– “A person dishonored is worst than dead.”
– “There is a time for some things and a time for all things; a time for great things and a time for small things.”
– “A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.”
– “A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”
– “Alas! all music jars when the soul’s out of tune.”
– “Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.”
– “Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”
– “Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.”
– “Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.”
– “Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.”
– “Every man is the son of his own works.”
– “Fair and softly goes far.”
– “Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”
– “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.”
– “Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.”
– “From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.”
– “God bears with the wicked, but not forever.”
– “Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.”
– “He had a face like a blessing.”
– “He preaches well that lives well.”