Friends, whoe’er ye be that are immured in that prison, forgive me that, to my misfortune and yours, I cannot deliver you from your misery;.
Knight of the Ill-Favored Face.
By the one God, Sancho, no more proverbs.
I was born like everyone else, and a man must not live in dependence on anyone except God;.
Halt! ill-born rabble, follow him not nor pursue him, or ye will have to reckon with me in battle!
Remember that I’m old enough to give advice, and the advice I’m giving you now is exactly right, and a bird in the hand is better than a vulture in the air,...
Take care, Sancho,” said Samson; “honours change manners, and perhaps when you find yourself a governor you won’t know the mother that bore you.
I only understand that while I’m sleeping I have no fear, or hope, or trouble, or glory; blessed be whoever invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thought...
A good joke, that!” returned Don Quixote. “Books that have been printed with the king’s licence, and with the approbation of those to whom they have been submitted, and read with universal delight, and extolled by great and small, rich and poor, learned and ignorant, gentle and simple, in a word by people of every sort, of whatever rank or condition they may be – that these should be lies!
He who seeketh danger perisheth therein.
The truth is, Senor, that I’m the most unfortunate doctor one could find anywhere in the world, where a physician can kill the sick person he’s treating and wants to be paid for his work, which is nothing but signing a piece of paper for some medicines that are made not by him but by the apothecary, and that’s the whole swindle; but when other people’s well-being costs me drops of blood, slaps, pinches, pinpricks, and lashes, they don’t give me an ardite.
So I pretended humility whenever I wanted to enter the service of a household, having first cased the place to ascertain that it could maintain and accommodate a large dog. Then I parked myself by the door and, when an apparent stranger came up, I barked at him. The lord of the house would come out and I’d lower my head, wag my tail, go up to him, and lick his brogans with my tongue.
I can say that since I have been a knight-errant I have become valiant, polite, generous, well-bred, magnanimous, courteous, dauntless, gentle, patient, and have learned to bear hardships, imprisonments, and.
There is no cleft of a rock, no bank of a stream, no shadow of a tree that is not occupied by some shepherd recounting his misfortunes to the wind. Whenever an echo can be heard, it repeats the name of Leandra, the mountains resound with the name of Leandra, the brooks do murmur Leandra, and Leandra holds us all enchanted and perplexed, hoping without hope and fearing without knowledge of what we fear.
I am by nature too lazy and slothful to go looking for authors to say what I know how to say without them.
Every man is the child of his own deeds.
The first thing he did was to clean up some armour that.
Ye love-smitten host, know that to Dulcinea only I am dough and sugar-paste, flint to all others; for her I am honey, for you aloes. For.
Nay, what is even worse, he may become a poet, which they say is an incurable and infectious disease.” “This.
Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.