Miguel de Cervantes

"Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher."

"Leap out of the frying pan into the fire."

"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience."

"No hay refran que no sea verdadero."

"The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life."

"Within a stone's throw of it."

"The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me."

"Raise a hue and cry."

"To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action when there is more reason to fear than to hope. 'Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket. And though I am but a clown, or a bumpkin, as you may say, yet I would have you to know I know what is what, and have always taken care of the main chance..."

"To do good to villains is to pour water into the sea."

"Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences."

"Of good natural parts and of a liberal education."

"After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it."

"I am almost frighted out of my seven senses."

"Let every man mind his own business."

"Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward."

"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?"

"Murder will out."

"Sing away sorrow, cast away care."

"Can we ever have too much of a good thing?"

"Take care, Your Worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills."

"The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment."

"Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine."

"The eyes those silent tongues of Love."

"There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault."

"Without a wink of sleep."

"The soldier who executes his captain's commands is no less valuable than the captain who gave the order."

"It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him."

"Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy."

"Fair and softly goes far."

"Thank you for nothing."

"To give the devil his due."

"No limits but the sky."

"Plain as the nose on a man's face."

"Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun."

"You are taking the wrong sow by the ear."

"Bell, book, and candle."

"You're leaping over the hedge before you come to the stile."

"Let the worst come to the worst."

"You are come off now with a whole skin."

"Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies."

"That's the nature of women ... not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not."

"Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone."

"Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?"

"I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt."

"The more thou stir it, the worse it will be."

"Now had Aurora displayed her mantle over the blushing skies, and dark night withdrawn her sable veil."

"I tell thee, that is Mambrino's helmet."

"Give me but that, and let the world rub; there I'll stick."

"Sure as a gun."