"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.

"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."

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxvii.

"You can see farther into a millstone than he."

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.""

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxi.

"Building castles in the air, 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."

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.

"I must follow him through thick and thin."

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.

"There is no love lost between us."

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.

"In the night all cats are gray."

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii.

"All is not gold that glisters."

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."

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."

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."

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; a word to the wise is enough."

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxvii.

"You may as well expect pears from an elm."

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xl.

"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world."

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xlii.

"You cannot eat your cake and have your cake; and store 's no sore."

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."

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."

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lviii.

"I think it a very happy accident."

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lviii.

"I shall be as secret as the grave."

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxii.

"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."

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxviii.

"Rome was not built in a day."

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxxi.

"The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death."

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxxi.

"Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last."

Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxxiv.

"Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted."

The Little Gypsy (La Gitanilla).

"My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain."

The Little Gypsy (La Gitanilla).