Top 73 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.