458 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

Let us make hay while the sun shines.

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.