"Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?"

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi.

"I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi.

"The more thou stir it, the worse it will be."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi.

"Now had Aurora displayed her mantle over the blushing skies, and dark night withdrawn her sable veil."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi.

"I tell thee, that is Mambrino's helmet."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vii.

"Give me but that, and let the world rub; there I 'll stick."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vii.

"Sure as a gun."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vii.

"Sing away sorrow, cast away care."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.

"Thank you for nothing."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.

"After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.

"Of good natural parts and of a liberal education."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.

"Would puzzle a convocation of casuists to resolve their degrees of consanguinity."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.

"Let every man mind his own business."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.

"Murder will out."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.

"Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.

"It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix.

"I know what 's what, and have always taken care of the main chance."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix.

"The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix.

"I am almost frighted out of my seven senses."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix.

"Within a stone's throw of it."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix.

"Let us make hay while the sun shines."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.

"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."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.

"Little said is soonest mended."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.

"A close mouth catches no flies."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.

"She may guess what I should perform in the wet, if I do so much in the dry."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.

"You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.

"It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi.

"Delay always breeds danger."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. ii.

"They must needs go whom the Devil drives."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. iv.

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. iv.

"More knave than fool."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. iv.

"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.

"I never saw a more dreadful battle in my born days."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. viii.

"Here is the devil-and-all to pay."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. x.

"I begin to smell a rat."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. x.

"I will take my corporal oath on it."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. x.

"It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued."

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. xi.

"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.

"When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain."

Don Quixote. 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.""

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.""

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.

"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.""

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."

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.