Miguel de Cervantes May Quotations

The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece....

Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.

Too much sanity may be madness.

Love not what you are but only what you may become.

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 ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.

The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

They who lose today may win tomorrow.

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.