Tell me what company thou keepest and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESIt is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
More Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
-
-
My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
Give the devil his due.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
Facts are the enemy of truth.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
God who gives the wound gives the salve.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
Delay always breeds danger.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
Many littles make a much.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
Believe there are no limits but the sky.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
Comparisons are odious.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
Think before thou speakest.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES