Miguel Cervantes was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, a work often cited as both the first modern novel and one of the pinnacles of world literature.
About Miguel Cervantes:
Bron: 29 September 1547 (assumed)
Died: 22 April 1616
Age: 68
Occupation : Soldiers, Tax Collector, Accountant,Purchasing Agent For Navvy(Writing was an avocation which did not produce much income)
Language : Spanish
Notable Works: Don Quixote, Entremeses,Novelas ejemplares.
Miguel Cervantes has gifted many quotes.Among them 50+ quotes are highlighted.
Quotes 1:
"Talking without thinking is like shooting without aiming."
Quotes 2:
"There's no taking trout with dry breeches."
Quotes 3:
"Hunger is the best sauce in the world."
Quotes 4:
"Our greatest foes, in whom we must chiefly combat, are within."
Quotes 5:
"Where one door shuts, another opens."
Quotes 6:
"To be prepared is half the victory."
Quotes 7:
"Facts are the enemy of the truth."
Quotes 8:
"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world."
Quotes 9:
"Get the better of yourself. This is the best kind of victory."
Quotes 10:
"Being clear kills fear."
Quotes 11:
"God exalts the man who humbles himself."
Quotes 12:
"One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more, but one who loses courage loses all."
Quotes 13:
"Believe there are no limits but the sky."
Quotes 14:
"Doing good to fools is like pouring water into the sea."
Quotes 15:
"Many littles make a much."
Quotes 16:
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd."
Quotes 17:
"Jealousy always looks through a spyglass that makes small things big. Dwarfs, giants, suspicions, truths."
Quotes 18:
"A man without honor is worse than dead."
Quotes 19:
"Your heart should be like a wax molded as your loved one pleases, but enduring as marble. To retain."
Quotes 20:
"Many go out for wool and come home shorn themselves."
Quotes 21:
"Trust in time, which usually gives sweet solutions to many bitter difficulties."
Quotes 22:
"Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness its opposite never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes."
Quotes 23:
"The eyes are the silent tongues of love."
Quotes 24:
"Women's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool."
Quotes 25
"Love and desire are two different things that not everything that is loved is desired, nor everything that is desired is loved."
Quotes 26:
"Every man is the son of his own works."
Quotes 27:
"The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation."
Quotes 28:
"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."
Quotes 29:
"Honesty is the best policy."
Quotes 30:
"Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all to see life as it is and not as it should be."
Quotes 31:
"Time ripens all things. No man is born wise."
Quotes 32:
"The pen is the tongue of the mind."
Quotes 33:
"A warrior who falls in battle is more valiant than one who fled."
Quotes 34:
"The wounds received in battle bestow honor. They do not take it away."
Quotes 35:
"He is the most blessed who loves the most the freest, who is most enslaved by love."
Quotes 36:
"In the life of heroes there is a limit to happiness and glory on which they must stop. If they go further, they will fall into misfortune and contempt."
Quotes 37:
"There is no place for happiness in the souls of the cowardly."
Quotes 38:
"It is up to bravehearts to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well."
Quotes 39:
"The path of virtue is very narrow, but the path of vice is wide and spacious."
Quotes 40:
"Hope is always born at the same time as love."
Quotes 41:
"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."
Quotes 42:
"Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise."
Quotes 43:
"How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?"
Quotes 44:
"What covers you discovers you."
Quotes 45:
"Where there is great love, there is often little display of it."
Quotes 46:
"Three things too much and three too little are pernicious to man. To speak much and know little, to spend much and have little, to presume much and be worth little."
Quotes 47:
"on a courageous heart. All adversity breaks."
Quotes 48:
"Neither idleness nor laziness can correct trouble."
Quotes 49:
"Verbosity usually breeds boredom."
Quotes 50:
"Fortune always leaves the door open in adversity in order to bring relief to it."
Quotes 51:
"The praise of the wise few is more important than the mockery of the foolish many."
Quotes 52:
"abundance, even of good things, prevents people from being valued."
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