I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Here lies a gentleman boldWho was so very braveHe went to lengths untold,And on the brink of the graveDeath had on him no hold.By the world he set small store--He frightened it to the core--Yet somehow, by Fate's plan,Though he'd lived a crazy man,When he died he was sane once more. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
...he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading his brains dried up to such a degree that he lost the use of his reason. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Anyone who is ignorant, even a lord and prince, can and should be counted as one of the mob. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
A closed mouth catches no flies. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
I don't see what my arse has to do with enchantings! - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Honesty's the best policy. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Men have to have friends even in hell. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
All sorrows are less with bread. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
He who sings scares away his woes. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Facts are the enemy of truth. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ ~ - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra