Author Quotee First Name

[a] [b] [c] [d] [e] [f] [g] [h] [i] [j] [k] [l] [m] [n] [o] [p] [q] [r] [s] [t] [u] [v] [w] [x] [y] [z]

Historical Famous
Quotes

Quotes

Historical Famous Quotes is a great reference and resource of quotes from films, shows, movies, history, famous people, leaders, stars and literature, including quotations on life, love, friendship, happy, sad, proverbs, sayings, popular and funny quotes, as well as short and long inspirational quotes. Great for entertainment, essays, and guidance in your own life.

 

Miguel de Cervantes

About Author: Spanish adventurer, author, & poet (1547 - 1616)

Quotes:

  • When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash...Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

  • Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

  • Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

  • Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.

  • I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

  • Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

  • Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.

  • Man have to have friends even in hell.

  • Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

  • A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

  • Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

  • Historicalfamousquotes.com ©  2009