“Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 74.
“For Time will teach thee soon the truth,
There are no birds in last year's nest!”
It is not always May, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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