“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.
“I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.”
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Prologue
“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.