Miguel De Cervantes

That which costs little is less valued.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

He had a face like a blessing.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

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.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

The proof of the pudding is the eating.

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

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.

The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.

He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.