“Time ripens all things. No man is born wise. Bishops are made of men and not of stones.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33. Note: "Time ripens all things" is the translator's interpolation and does not appear in the original Spanish text.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 35.
La pluma es la lengua del alma: cuales fueren los conceptos que en ella se engendraren, tales serán sus escritos.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 16, as translated by Henry Edward Watts (1895).
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 21.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 3.
“Can we ever have too much of a good thing?”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 6.
“Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.”
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter
“Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 6.
“There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book II, Ch. 4.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 10.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 11.