Miguel de Cervantes

"I begin to smell a rat."

"I will take my corporal oath on it."

"The proof of the pudding is in the eating."

"Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword."

"It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued."

"It is a common proverb, beauteous princess, that diligence is the mother of good fortune."

"The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation."

"I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied."

""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 who bore you ever did"."

"It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write."

"When the head aches, all the members partake of the pains."

"History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth."

"There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters."

"There is no book so bad," said the bachelor, "but something good may be found in it."

"Cada uno es como Dios le hizo, y aún peor muchas veces."

"Spare your breath to cool your porridge."

"The best sauce in the world is hunger."

"Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst."

"The fair sex."

"de todos ha de haber en el mundo"

"A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. 'Tis good to keep a nest egg. Every little makes a mickle."

"Remember the old saying, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.""

"Forewarned forearmed."

"A stout man's heart breaks bad luck."

"As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay."

"There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other."

"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."