More from Miguel de Cervantes

  1. For if he like a madman lived, At least he like a wise one died.
  2. Well, now, there's a remedy for everything except death.
  3. There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously alleviates the sorrow that men would…
  4. Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep?
  5. Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
  6. The painter Orbaneja of Ubeda, if he chanced to draw a cock, he wrote under it, 'This is a cock,' lest the people should take it for a fox.
  7. He ... got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wish for.
  8. Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

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