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There is no proverb which is not true.
[Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
Topic: Proverbs (General)
Source: Don Quixote
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
[Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.]
Topic: Prudence
Source: Don Quixote (II, 9)
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain (that if gets broken).
[Sp., Tantas veces va el cantarillo a la fuente.]
Topic: Results
Source: Don Quixote (I, 30)
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
[Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.]
Topic: Results
Source: Don Quixote (I, 37)
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When you are at Rome, do as you see.
[Sp., Cuando a Roma fueres, haz como vieres.]
Topic: Rome
Source: Don Quixote
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To Rome for everything.
[Sp., Y a Roma pro todo.]
Topic: Rome
Source: Don Quixote (2, 13, 55)
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
Topic: Senses
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. IX)
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
Topic: Shoemaking
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, ch. IV)
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
[Sp., Quien canta, sus males espanta.]
Topic: Singing
Source: Don Quixote (I, 22)
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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. There is
only one thing, which somebody once put into my head, that I
dislike in sleep; it is, that it resembles death; there is very
little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in
his last sleep.
Topic: Sleep
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LXVIII)
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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.
Topic: Soldiers
Source: Don Quixote (ch. XXXIX)
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Make hay while the sun shines.
Topic: Sun
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. 11)
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The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted.
Topic: Sun
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. 11)
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One swallow alone does not make the summer.
[Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.]
Topic: Swallows
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, ch. XIII)
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Thank you for nothing.
Topic: Thankfulness
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. VIII)
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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
Topic: Thought
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LVII)
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This peck of troubles.
Topic: Trouble
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. LIII)
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
Topic: Trout
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. 71)
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
[Sp., Las necedades del rico por sentencias pasan en el mundo.]
Topic: Wealth
Source: Don Quixote (II, 43)
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get
blunted.
Topic: Wit
Source: The Little Gypsy
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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.]
Topic: Work
Source: Don Quixote (bk. I, ch. 4)
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Earned with the sweat of my brows.
Topic: Work
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. I, ch. 4)
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