Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don't you be worried or annoyed, Sancho, about any comments you hear, or there will never be an end to them? Keep a safe conscience and let people say what they like: trying to still gossips' tongues is like putting up doors in open fields. If the governor leaves office rich they say he's a thief, and if he leaves it poor they say he's a milksop and a fool.

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

El Que lee much y and much, ve much y same much.

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Facts are the enemy of truth.

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up, and he went completely out of his mind.

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store--He frightened it to the core--Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He who sings scares away his woes.

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Honesty's the best policy.

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I don't see what my ass has to do with enchanting!

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra