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Little said is soonest mended.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
All is not gold that glisters.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
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.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Even among the fiends there are some worse than others, and among many bad men you may find one good.
Novelas ejemplares (Exemplary Novels) (1613)
Control your tongue, for from it flow the greatest evils of human life.
Novelas ejemplares (Exemplary Novels) (1613)
Now had Aurora displayed her mantle over the blushing skies, and dark night withdrawn her sable veil.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
"You are a villain and a scoundrel," said Don Quixote, "and you are the one who is vacant and foolish; I have more upstairs than the whore who bore you ever did".
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Let every man look before he leaps.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Time will be gained, and time usually provides a sweet ending for many bitter difficulties.
Novelas ejemplares (Exemplary Novels) (1613)
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
An honest maid and a broken leg are best at home, a woman and a hen are soon lost by gadding, and the girl who’s anxious to see also longs to be seen.
Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
The eyes those silent tongues of Love.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
The best sauce in the world is hunger.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
What a man has, so much he is sure of.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
A stout man's heart breaks bad luck.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
I will take my corporal oath on it.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Absence, that common cure of love.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
A good name is better than riches.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)