"Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even."

"Well, now, there's a remedy for everything except death."

"I shall be as secret as the grave."

"There is no greater folly in this world than for a man to despair."

"I think it a very happy accident."

"As they use to say, spick and span new."

"Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind."

"My thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back."

"Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones."

"If a governor comes out of his government rich, they say he has been a thief; and if he comes out poor, that he has been a noodle and a blockhead."

"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome."

"This peck of troubles."

"Mum's the word."

"When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made."

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

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."

"You cannot eat your cake and have your cake; 48 and store 's no sore."

"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world."

"You may as well expect pears from an elm."

"Good wits jump; 45 a word to the wise is enough."

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

"The pot calls the kettle black."

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

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

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

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

"Matters will go swimmingly."

"But all in good time."

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

"I have other fish to fry."

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

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

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

"A good name is better than riches."

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

"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."

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

"All is not gold that glisters."

"In the night all cats are gray."

"There is no love lost between us."

"I must follow him through thick and thin."

"He is as mad as a March hare."

"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."

"Great persons are able to do great kindnesses."

"It is good to live and learn."

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

"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."

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