458 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Other men's pains are easily borne.

My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.