
Part I, chapter 2.
Proverbs (1546)
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 14.
Part I, chapter 2.
Proverbs (1546)
“Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.”
The Roxburghe Ballads (c. 1630), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“How many times must a man look up before he can see the sky?”
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Blowin' in the Wind
Canto II, line 501
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“A Man may so overdo it in looking too far before him, that he may stumble the more for it.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections