Quotes
Quotes - Cervantes
Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
That which costs little is less valued.
Jests that give pains are no jests.
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -Miguel de Cervantes.
'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes. - Don Quixote.
'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.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
That which costs little is less valued.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
