Humorous Quotes attributed to
Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

Absence -- that common cure of love.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

By such innovations (Slang) are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

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

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

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.

I never thrust my nose into other men’s porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''There were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.''

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Sancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

That which costs little is less valued.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

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