Quotes by Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. >>

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

Quotations about Sleep

The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their tim >>

I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I d >>

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips >>

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; 'Tis meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. 'Tis the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise-man even. There is only one thing that I dislike in sleep; 'Tis that it resembles death; there's very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep.

Cervantes, Miguel De