Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.

Proverbs (general) Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote

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Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. [Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.]

Education Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (II, 10)

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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. [Sp., Como el hacer mal viene de natural cosecha, facilmente se aprende el hacerle.]

Evil Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Coloquio de los Perros

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Here is the devil-and-all to pay.

Devil Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (bk. IV, pt. I, ch. X)

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All will come out in the washing. [Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.]

Cleanliness Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (I, 20)

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Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

Proverbial phrases Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. IV)

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Within a stone's throw of it.

Proverbial phrases Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. IX)

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There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]

Proverbs (general) Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote

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Can one desire too much of a good thing?

Goodness Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. I, ch. VI)

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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?

Comparisons Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. I)

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A man prepared has half fought the battle. [Sp., Hombre apercebido medio combatido.]

Progress Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (2, 7)

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

Drinking Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXIII)

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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

Thought Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LVII)

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The pen is the tongue of the mind. [Sp., La pluma es lengua del alma.]

Authorship Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (V, 16)

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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. [Sp., Mas acompanados y paniguados debe di tener la locura que la discrecion.]

Folly Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (II, 13)

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More knave than fool.

Folly Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. IV, ch. 2)

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All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. [Sp., No todas hermosuras enamoran, que algunas alegran la vista, y no rinden la voluntad.]

Beauty Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (II, 6)

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I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

Content Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. IV, ch. XXIII)

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Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]

Patience Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (II, 23)

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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

Soldiers Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (ch. XXXIX)

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The rather since every man is the son of his own works. [Sp., Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo de sus obras.]

Work Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (bk. I, ch. 4)

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Earned with the sweat of my brows.

Work Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. I, ch. 4)

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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra),

Labor Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote--Author's Preface

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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

Senses Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. IX)

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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.

Independence Quotes, by Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) , Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. XI)

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