Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish Novelist
Born: Sep 29, 1547
Died: Apr 23, 1616
Always Good Man Own Will World
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. Miguel de Cervantes
Success Impossible Must Attain Attempt Absurd Order
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. Miguel de Cervantes
Life Madness Too Much Too See May Much Should Sanity
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this. Miguel de Cervantes
Man Courage World Better Will Stars Ounce One-Man Scars Unreachable Reach Still Covered His Scorned Last
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched. Miguel de Cervantes
Cats Those Must Expect Scratched Play
A closed mouth catches no flies. Miguel de Cervantes
Wisdom Closed Mouth Flies
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. Miguel de Cervantes
Courage Wealth More He Loses His Friend Much Who
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. Miguel de Cervantes
Knowledge You Yourself Will Vanity Preserve
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. Miguel de Cervantes
Love Nature Women To Love Them
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. Miguel de Cervantes
Time Man Learning Degree Other Hunger Weakness Costs Eminent Attain Head Him Stomach Graduation Watching Inconvenience
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. Miguel de Cervantes
Discipline Brainy Submit One Thing Another Praise Thing
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable. Miguel de Cervantes
Life Man Liberty Honor Ought Hazard Well Without His Preserve
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. Miguel de Cervantes
Our Foes Must Combat Within Greatest Chiefly Whom
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. Miguel de Cervantes
Parenting Ugly Own Think Fathers Mothers Children
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment. Miguel de Cervantes
Too Much Reading Judgment Lost Sleeping Too Dried He Him His Brain Up Little Much
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise. Miguel de Cervantes
Secret Promise Neither Drink Nor Moderately Keeps
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness. Miguel de Cervantes
Cowardice Valor Lies True Between
God bears with the wicked, but not forever. Miguel de Cervantes
God Wicked Bears Forever
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. Miguel de Cervantes
Truth Broken Water Stretched Above Does Always Falsehood Gets May Oil Cannot
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. Miguel de Cervantes
Courage Cowardice Valor Lies Between Halfway Just
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. Miguel de Cervantes
Wise Wealth Possession Lavish Mere Expenditure Gratification Found Application
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. Miguel de Cervantes
Fraudulent Weight Fair Dealers Terror Same May Reason Keep Awe Butcher
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots. Miguel de Cervantes
World Old Say Only Families Grandmother Used Two
Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes. Miguel de Cervantes
Miserable Only Comfort Partners Woes Tis
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope. Miguel de Cervantes
Hope Wise Fear Action Run Stay More Withdraw Than Reason Away
Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. Miguel de Cervantes
Better Those Giants Look Pray Sir Things
Thou hast seen nothing yet. Miguel de Cervantes
Seen Nothing Thou
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