Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
You are a devil at everything, and there
is no kind of thing in the 'versal world
but what you can turn your hand into.
~Don Quixote~
All that glistens is not gold.
~Don Quixote~
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love;
there is a kind which only pleases
the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
~Don Quixote~
Never look for birds of this
year in the nests of the last.
~Don Quixote~
All will come out in the washing.
~Don Quixote~
Tell me thy company and
I will tell thee what thou art.
~Don Quixote~
I would do what I pleased, and doing
what I pleased, I should have my will,
and having my will, I should be contented;
and when one is contented, there is no
more to be desired; and when there is
no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
~Don Quixote~
Said the pot to the kettle,
"Get away, blackface."
~Don Quixote~
I drink when I have occasion,
and sometimes when I have no occasion.
~Don Quixote~
All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread.
~Don Quixote~
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
~Don Quixote~
Not with whom you are born,
but with whom you are bred.
~Don Quixote~
He had a face like a benediction (blessing).
~Don Quixote~
Fear has many eyes.
~Don Quixote~
Make yourself honey and
the flies will devour you.
~Don Quixote~
Folly is wont to have more followers
and comrades than discretion.
~Don Quixote~
But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I
did like the countryman, who looked for his
ass while he was mounted on his back.
~Don Quixote~
Nobody is forgotten when it
is convenient to remember him.
~Don Quixote~
In hell there is no retention.
~Don Quixote~
Until death all is life.
(Where there's life there's hope.)
~Don Quixote~
With life many things are remedied.
(While there's life there's hope.)
~Don Quixote~
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.
~Don Quixote~
I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
~Don Quixote~
A man prepared has half fought the battle.
~Don Quixote~
Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
~Don Quixote~
Proverbs are short sentences
drawn from long and wise experience.
~Don Quixote~
He who sings frightens away his ills.
~Don Quixote~
Now, blessings light on him that first invented this
same sleep! it covers a man all over, thoughts and
all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for
the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.
It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures
of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king
and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
There is only one thing, which somebody once put
into my head, that I dislike in sleep; it is, that it
resembles death; there is very little difference between
a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep.
~Don Quixote~
Make hay while the sun shines.
~Don Quixote~
song playing....La Bamba