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though it don't make you laugh outright, it may chance to make ye draw in your Lips, and shew your Teeth like a Monkey;


Miguel de Cervantes

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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Fair and softly goes far.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES That which costs little is less valued.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES He preaches well that lives well.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A person dishonored is worst than dead.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.) [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) With life many things are remedied. (While there's life there's hope.) [Sp., Con la vida mucha...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Soul of fibre and heart of oak. [Sp., Alma de esparto y corazon de encina.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saav...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. [Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien p...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I s...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and w...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) All will come out in the washing. [Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The pen is the tongue of the mind. [Sp., La pluma es lengua del alma.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Within a stone's throw of it.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society. [Sp., Las necedades del rico por se...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. [Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son m...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Fear has many eyes. [Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) He had a face like a benediction (blessing).
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) In hell there is no retention. [Sp., Quien ha infierene nula es retencio.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. [Sp., Como el hace...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) He who sings frightens away his ills. [Sp., Quien canta, sus males espanta.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) It will be seen in the frying of the eggs. [Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) The pitcher goes so often to the fountain (that if gets broken). [Sp., Tantas veces va el cantaril...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) To Rome for everything. [Sp., Y a Roma pro todo.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) When you are at Rome, do as you see. [Sp., Cuando a Roma fueres, haz como vieres.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) A man prepared has half fought the battle. [Sp., Hombre apercebido medio combatido.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I have other fish to fry.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Honesty is the best policy.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Make hay while the sun shines.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The more thou stir it the worse it will be.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Let the worst come to the worst.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA God who sends the wound sends the medicine. [Sp., Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) As ill-luck would have it.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to bet...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Heaven's help is better than early rising.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) God helps everyone with what is his own. [Sp., Ayude Dios con lo suyo a cada uno.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) More knave than fool.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. [Sp., Mas acompanados y panigu...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]
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