Part ii
. Chap. ii._
He has done like Orbaneja, the painter of Ubeda, who, being asked what he painted, answered, "As it may hit;" and when he had scrawled out a misshapen cock, was forced to write underneath, in Gothic letters, "This is a cock."[788-3]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. iii._
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.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. iii._
"There is no book so bad," said the bachelor, "but something good may be found in it."[788-4]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. iii._
Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. iv._
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.[789-1]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. v._
A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. vii._
Remember the old saying, "Faint heart never won fair lady."[789-2]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. x._
There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. x._
Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. x._
Let every man look before he leaps.[789-3]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xiv._
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xvi._
There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xx._
He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxii._
Patience, and shuffle the cards.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxiii._
Comparisons are odious.[789-4]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxiii._
Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxiii._
The proof of the pudding is the eating.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxiv._
He is as like one, as one egg is like another.[789-5]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxvii._
You can see farther into a millstone than he.[789-6]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxviii._
Sancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxx._
"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."[790-1]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxi._
Building castles in the air,[790-2] and making yourself a laughing-stock.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxi._
It is good to live and learn.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxii._
He is as mad as a March hare.[790-3]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxiii._
I must follow him through thick and thin.[790-4]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxiii._
There is no love lost between us.[790-5]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxiii._
In the night all cats are gray.[790-6]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxiii._
All is not gold that glisters.[790-7]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxiii._
I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxiii._
Honesty is the best policy.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxiii._
Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxiii._
A good name is better than riches.[790-8]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxiii._
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxiii._
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxiii._
Heaven's help is better than early rising.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxiv._
I have other fish to fry.[790-9]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxv._
There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.[791-1]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxv._
But all in good time.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxvi._
Matters will go swimmingly.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxvi._
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxvii._
They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxvii._
Good wits jump;[791-2] a word to the wise is enough.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xxxvii._
You may as well expect pears from an elm.[791-3]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xl._
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.[791-4]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xlii._
You cannot eat your cake and have your cake;[791-5] and store 's no sore.[791-6]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xliii._
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xliii._
What a man has, so much he is sure of.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xliii._
When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xliii._
The pot calls the kettle black.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. xliii._
This peck of troubles.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. liii._
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.[791-7]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. liv._
Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. lv._
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. lvii._
Liberty . . . is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. lviii._
As they use to say, spick and span new.[792-1]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. lviii._
I think it a very happy accident.[792-2]
_Don Quixote. Part ii . Chap. lviii._
I shall be as secret as the grave.
_Don Quixote.