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"I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff."
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. v.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I never saw a more dreadful battle in my born days."
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. viii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Here is the devil-and-all to pay."
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I begin to smell a rat."
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I will take my corporal oath on it."
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued."
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. xi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied."
Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. xxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.""
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
""There is no book so bad," said the bachelor, "but something good may be found in it.""
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. vii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Remember the old saying, "Faint heart never won fair lady.""
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?"
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Let every man look before he leaps."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xiv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The pen is the tongue of the mind."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xvi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xx.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Patience, and shuffle the cards."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The proof of the pudding is the eating."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxiv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He is as like one, as one egg is like another."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"You can see farther into a millstone than he."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxviii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Sancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxx.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
""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.""
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"It is good to live and learn."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He is as mad as a March hare."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I must follow him through thick and thin."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There is no love lost between us."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"In the night all cats are gray."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"All is not gold that glisters."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Honesty is the best policy."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Time ripens all things. No man is born wise."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A good name is better than riches."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"An honest man's word is as good as his bond."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Heaven's help is better than early rising."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I have other fish to fry."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"But all in good time."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxvi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Matters will go swimmingly."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxvi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"You may as well expect pears from an elm."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xl.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world."
Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xlii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain