More from Miguel de Cervantes

  1. Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
  2. Delay always breeds danger.
  3. 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.
  4. Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!
  5. 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?
  6. Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
  7. Well, now, there's a remedy for everything except death.
  8. I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

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