Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

There's a time for all things.

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.

To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.

There is time in life for everything.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

Over the years I learned that you can have it all - just not at the same time.

Always keep things in perspective.

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.

Take time for all things.

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

It's okay if it takes two or three years for something really good to come along, but I don't want to wait ten years for something great to come along.

All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait.

In fashion as in life, the right thing at the right time is the right thing. The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

There is a time and a place for everything. There is a time and a place for talk. And there is a time and a place for action.

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.

Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.