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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in
the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
Topic: Ability
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. XI)
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All that glisters is not gold.
Topic: Appearance
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXIII)
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
[Sp., La pluma es lengua del alma.]
Topic: Authorship
Source: Don Quixote (V, 16)
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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.]
Topic: Beauty
Source: Don Quixote (II, 6)
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You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
Topic: Birds
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, ch. IV)
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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
Topic: Birds
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LXXIV)
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
[Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]
Topic: Cards
Source: Don Quixote (II, 23)
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Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my
cradle.
Topic: Change
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXX)
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All will come out in the washing.
[Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.]
Topic: Cleanliness
Source: Don Quixote (I, 20)
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Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
Topic: Companionship
Source: Don Quixote (vol. III, pt. II, ch. XXIII), quoted in
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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?
Topic: Comparisons
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. I)
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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.
Topic: Content
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. IV, ch. XXIII)
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Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface."
[Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla ojinegra.]
Topic: Criticism
Source: Don Quixote (II, 67)
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Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
Topic: Devil
Source: Don Quixote (bk. IV, pt. I, ch. X)
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no
occasion.
Topic: Drinking
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXIII)
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All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread.
[Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son menos).]
Topic: Eating
Source: Don Quixote (ch. II, 13)
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
[Sp., Tripas llevan corazon, que no corazon tripas.]
Topic: Eating
Source: Don Quixote (ch. II, 47)
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The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Topic: Eating
Source: Don Quixote (ch. XXIV)
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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.]
Topic: Education
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.]
Topic: Evil
Source: Coloquio de los Perros
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He had a face like a benediction (blessing).
Topic: Faces
Source: Don Quixote (bk. II, pt. I, ch. IV)
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Fear has many eyes.
[Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.]
Topic: Fear
Source: Don Quixote (III, 6)
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I have other fish to fry.
Topic: Fish
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXV)
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
[Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]
Topic: Flies
Source: Don Quixote (II, 43)
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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.]
Topic: Folly
Source: Don Quixote (II, 13)
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More knave than fool.
Topic: Folly
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. IV, ch. 2)
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But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the
countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his
back.
Topic: Forgetfulness
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LVII)
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
Topic: Forgetfulness
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LVII)
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Can one desire too much of a good thing?
Topic: Goodness
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. I, ch. VI)
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One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
Topic: Hatters
Source: Don Quixote
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
[Sp., Alma de esparto y corazon de encina.]
Topic: Heart
Source: Don Quixote (II, 70)
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My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as
marble to retain.
Topic: Heart
Source: The Little Gypsy
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In hell there is no retention.
[Sp., Quien ha infierene nula es retencio.]
Topic: Hell
Source: Don Quixote (I, 25), Sancho Panza, misquoting the saying
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Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
Topic: Hell
Source: Don Quixote (I, 25), Sancho Panza, misquoting the saying
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God helps everyone with what is his own.
[Sp., Ayude Dios con lo suyo a cada uno.]
Topic: Help
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, 26)
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
Topic: Help
Source: Don Quixote (vol. III, pt. II, ch. XXXIV)
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Until death all is life.
(Where there's life there's hope.)
[Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.]
Topic: Hope
Source: Don Quixote
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With life many things are remedied.
(While there's life there's hope.)
[Sp., Con la vida muchas cosas se remedian.]
Topic: Hope
Source: Don Quixote
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
[Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]
Topic: Hunger
Source: Don Quixote
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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.
Topic: Independence
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. XI)
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He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was
conducting his affairs from good to better, discovered to him the
road, where he also espied an Inn. Sancho positively maintained
it was an Inn, and his master that it was a castle; and the
dispute lasted so long that they arrived there before it was
determined.
Topic: Inns
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, ch. XV)
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
- Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra),
Topic: Labor
Source: Don Quixote--Author's Preface
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As ill-luck would have it.
Topic: Luck
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. I, ch. II)
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I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
Topic: Luck
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. I, ch. II)
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God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
[Sp., Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina.]
Topic: Medicine
Source: Don Quixote (II, 19)
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
[Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]
Topic: Patience
Source: Don Quixote (II, 23)
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A man prepared has half fought the battle.
[Sp., Hombre apercebido medio combatido.]
Topic: Progress
Source: Don Quixote (2, 7)
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Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. IV)
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Within a stone's throw of it.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. IX)
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.
Topic: Proverbs (General)
Source: Don Quixote
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