Miguel de Cervantes Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Perseverance, Men

  "Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, part II, book IV, chapter 38., 1605-1615.

• No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Beauty, Mother, Children

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Vicente de los Rios, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1819). “Don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by C. Jarvis”, p.199

• Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Home, Government

• No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Children, Father

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1825). “The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.108

• Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Experience, Universal

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha ...”, p.229

• There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Motherhood, Experience

• I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Believe, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.119, Wordsworth Editions

• For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Past, Hatred

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