"Facts are the enemy of truth."
Read quote
10 likes
Quote collection
Miguel de Cervantes quotes (page 7 of 22)
437 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots."
Read quote
10 likes
"By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'."
Read quote
10 likes
"Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."
Read quote
10 likes
"Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be."
Read quote
10 likes
"Every dog has his day."
Read quote
10 likes
"The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away."
Read quote
10 likes
"Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice."
Read quote
10 likes
"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."
Read quote
10 likes
"The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty."
Read quote
10 likes
"A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity."
Read quote
10 likes
"The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation."
Read quote
10 likes
"I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man?s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one?s self."
Read quote
10 likes
"Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies."
Read quote
10 likes
"Virtue is the truest nobility."
Read quote
9 likes
"Where one door shuts another opens."
Read quote
9 likes
"Patience and shuffle the cards."
Read quote
9 likes
"It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."
Read quote
9 likes
"Can we ever have too much of a good thing?"
Read quote
9 likes
"That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not."
Read quote
9 likes