“Sancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 30.
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“Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 4.
“Give me but that, and let the world rub; there I'll stick.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 7.
“In the night all cats are gray.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.
Y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 1 (tr. Samuel Putnam).
“As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 10.
“He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 22.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 36.
“Within a stone's throw of it.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 9.
“There is no book so bad," said the bachelor, "but something good may be found in it.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 3.
“They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 38.
“I think it a very happy accident.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 58.
“It is good to live and learn.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 32.
“Absence, that common cure of love.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 10.
“You're leaping over the hedge before you come to the stile.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 4.
“As they use to say, spick and span new.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 58.
“You are taking the wrong sow by the ear.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 4.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 2.
“You are come off now with a whole skin.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 5.