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Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.
Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable
there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls
"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."
A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.