John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. (1547–1616) (continued) |
| 9446 |
| Spare your breath to cool your porridge. 1 |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. v. |
| 9447 |
| A little in one’s own pocket is better than much in another man’s purse. |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. vii. |
| 9448 |
| Remember the old saying, “Faint heart never won fair lady.” 2 |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. x. |
| 9449 |
| There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other. |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. x. |
| 9450 |
| Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone? |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. x. |
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| Let every man look before he leaps. 3 |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xiv. |
| 9452 |
| The pen is the tongue of the mind. |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xvi. |
| 9453 |
| There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little. |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xx. |
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| He has an oar in every man’s boat, and a finger in every pie. |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxii. |
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| Patience, and shuffle the cards. |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxiii. |
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| Comparisons are odious. 4 |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxiii. |
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| Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art. |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxiii. |
| 9458 |
| The proof of the pudding is the eating. |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxiv. |
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| He is as like one, as one egg is like another. 5 |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxvii. |
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| You can see farther into a millstone than he. 6 |
| Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap xxviii. |
| Note 1. See Rabelais, Quotation 57. [back] |
| Note 2. Edmund Spenser: Britain’s Ida, canto v. stanza 1. Ellerton: George a-Greene (a Ballad). Whetstone: Rocke of Regard. Robert Burns: To Dr. Blacklock. George Colman, the Younger: Love Laughs at Locksmiths, act i. [back] |
| Note 3. See Heywood, Quotation 8. [back] |
| Note 4. See Fortescue, Quotation 2. [back] |
| Note 5. See Rabelais, Quotation 43. Also Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Quotation 1. [back] |
| Note 6. See Heywood, Quotation 51. [back] |