Miguel de Cervantes

Ranking: 13th
Biography of Miguel de Cervantes
Search Miguel de Cervantes's quotes

1 2 3 4 5 Next >>
Quote	Categories	Rating	Rate
"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."	Experience
"Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."	Change, Excellence, Men
"It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket."	Art, Knowledge, Men
"Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"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."	Men, Reading
"A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse."	Men
"I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt."	Miscellaneous
"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."	Ability, Age, Courage
"Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies."	Fear
"You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne."	Government, Monarchy
"I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion."	Change, Time
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome."	Art
"What a man has, so much he is sure of."	Men
"Let every man mind his own business."	Men, Sin
"Let us make hay while the sun shines."	Miscellaneous
"Little said is soonest mended."	Men
"Sing away sorrow, cast away care."	Sin, Sorrow
"Spare your breath to cool your porridge."	Miscellaneous
"Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art."	Art
"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it."	Ability, Change, Darkness
1 2 3 4 5 Next >>

Browse Miguel de Cervantes quotes by category:

Ability	Adversity	Age
Anger	Art	Books
Change	Courage	Darkness
Death	Difficulty	Evil
Excellence	Experience	Fear
Freedom	Friends	Government
Happiness	History	Honesty
Humor	Joy	Knowledge
Laughter	Learning	Liberty
Lies	Life	Light
Love	Men	Military
Miscellaneous	Mistakes	Monarchy
Money	Nature	Reading
Sanity	Sin	Sorrow
Time	Truth	War
Wisdom	Women