Quote #92

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

More from Miguel de Cervantes

  1. In me the need to talk is a primary impulse, and I can't help saying right off what comes to my tongue.
  2. Let each man say what he chooses; if because of this I am criticized by the ignorant, I shall not be chastised by the learned.
  3. A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause.
  4. '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 …
  5. Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
  6. Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
  7. 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.
  8. My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

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