Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, 1547-1616
19 quotes.
Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
- A good name is better than riches.
- An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
- Better a blush in the face than a blot in the heart.
- By the streets of "By and By" one arrives at the house of "Never.
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and indolence, its opposite, never yet attained the object of an honest ambition.
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness — its opposite — never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
- Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies.
- Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
- Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
- He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
- Irresolute people let their soup grow cold between the plate and the mouth.
- It is better to live on the crust of your own industry than on the fruits of other people's.
- Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
- Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
- The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
- Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.
- Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
- Where one door shuts, another opens.