Miguel de Cervantes quotes - page 4

It takes all sorts (to make a world) (Miguel de Cervantes)
Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences. View quote
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued. View quote
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The best sauce in the world is hunger. View quote
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives. View quote
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I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth. View quote
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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. View quote
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For if he like a madman lived, At least he like a wise one died. View quote
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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters. View quote
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Think before thou speakest. View quote
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My honor is dearer to me than my life. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone. View quote
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Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst. View quote
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I say patience, and shuffle the cards. View quote
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My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name. View quote
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Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master. View quote
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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves. View quote
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Little said is soonest mended. View quote
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To be prepared is half the victory. View quote
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. View quote
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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)
A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty. View quote
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Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun. View quote
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I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance. View quote
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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. View quote
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