Quote #82
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.
More from Miguel de Cervantes
- 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?
- Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
- Well, now, there's a remedy for everything except death.
- I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
- I am almost frighted out of my seven senses.
- Delay always breeds danger.
- For if he like a madman lived, At least he like a wise one died.
- Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!