Playwrights From Spain

"Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?"

"I'll turn over a new leaf."

"Let every man look before he leaps."

"La pluma es la lengua del alma: cuales fueren los conceptos que en ella se engendraren, tales serán sus escritos."

"Marriage is a noose."

"There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-Nots."

"Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other."

"A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency."

"There is no love lost, sir."

"He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie."

"Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art."

"Comparisons are odious."

"I say patience, and shuffle the cards."

"The proof of the pudding is the eating."

"El que lee mucho y anda mucho vee mucho y sabe mucho."

"Tomorrow will be a new day."

"He is as like one, as one egg is like another."

"You can see farther into a millstone than he."

"Sancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle."

"Sit there, clod-pate!" cried he; "for let me sit wherever I will, that will still be the upper end, and the place of worship to thee."

"Building castles in the air, 36 and making yourself a laughing-stock."

"It is good to live and learn."

"Great persons are able to do great kindnesses."

"Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master."

"He is as mad as a March hare."

"I must follow him through thick and thin."

"There is no love lost between us."

"In the night all cats are gray."

"All is not gold that glisters."

"I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes."

"I was ever charitable and good to the poor, and scorn to take the bread out of another man's mouth. On the other side, by our Lady, they shall play me no foul play. I am an old cur at a crust, and can sleep dog-sleep when I list. I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes. I know where the shoe wrings me. I will know who and who is together. Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning."

"Nadie nace enseñado, y de los hombres se hacen los obispos, que no de las piedras."

"A good name is better than riches."

"I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion."

"An honest man's word is as good as his bond."

"Heaven's help is better than early rising."

"I have other fish to fry."

"There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things."

"But all in good time."

"Matters will go swimmingly."

"Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves."

"Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough."

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness — its opposite — never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes."

"What a man has, so much he's sure of."

"The pot calls the kettle black."

"They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot."

"Acontece tener un padre un hijo feo y sin gracia alguna, y el amor que le tiene le pone una venda en los ojos para que no vea sus faltas, antes las juzga por discreciones y lindezas y las cuenta a sus amigos por agudezas y donaires."

"He had a face like a benediction."

"Put you in this pickle."

"The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works."