65 Quotes by Cervantes Saavedra

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

One man is no more than another if he does no more than another

My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''there were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.''

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Poetry, good sir, in my opinion, is like a tender virgin, very young, and extremely beautiful, whom divers others virgins - namely, all the other sciences - make it their business to enrich, polish and adorn; and to her it belongs to make use of them

I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.

I hate to keep things long in case they go mouldy from over-keeping.

Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at the bottom

God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all men's thoughts, the food that cures all hunger . . . the balancing weight that levels the shepherd with the king and the simple with the wise.