Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
20 quotes
Biography
"Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind."
"The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty."
"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."
"El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho."
"Facts are the enemy of truth."
"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."
"Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred."
"The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf."
"I don't see what my arse has to do with enchantings!"
"He who sings scares away his woes."
"There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha"
"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."
"Honesty's the best policy."
"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~"
"Anyone who is ignorant, even a lord and prince, can and should be counted as one of the mob."
"All sorrows are less with bread."
"The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works."
"That which costs little is less valued."
"...if the verses are for a literary competition, your grace should try to win second place; first is always won through favor or because of the high estate of the person, second is won because of pure justice, and by this calculation third becomes second, and the first becomes third..."
"A Man Without Honoris Worse than Dead."