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Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
Novelas ejemplares (Exemplary Novels) (1613)
Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.
God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
A man prepared has half fought the battle.
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
In me the need to talk is a primary impulse, and I can't help saying right off what comes to my tongue.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
The Book of the Bizarre: Freaky Facts & Strange Stories (2008)
My lady can guess what I would do in the wet if I do all this in the dry.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. 'Tis good to keep a nest egg. Every little makes a mickle.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
For if he like a madman lived,
At least he like a wise one died.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Well, now, there's a remedy for everything except death.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
I am almost frighted out of my seven senses.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
It takes all sorts to make a world. (Literally, “There must be of all [types] in the world”)
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)