There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots. – Miguel de Cervantes
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise. – Miguel de Cervantes
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. – Miguel de Cervantes
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences. – Miguel de Cervantes
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. – Miguel de Cervantes
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. – Miguel de Cervantes
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. – Miguel de Cervantes
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. – Miguel de Cervantes
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. – Miguel de Cervantes
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment. – Miguel de Cervantes
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. – Miguel de Cervantes