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" I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.
They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.
As ill-luck would have it.
Without a wink of sleep.
No limits but the sky.
To give the devil his due.
Raise a hue and cry.
Tomorrow will be a new day.
Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
My love and hers have always been purely Platonic.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.
Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
Fair and softly goes far.
Plain as the nose on a man's face.
Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
You are taking the wrong sow by the ear.
Bell, book, and candle.
Let the worst come to the worst.
You are come off now with a whole skin.
Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.
Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.
Now had Aurora displayed her mantle over the blushing skies, and dark night withdrawn her sable veil.
Give me but that, and let the world rub; there I 'll stick.
Sure as a gun.
Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
Thank you for nothing.
After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it.
Let every man mind his own business.
Murder will out.
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
I am almost frighted out of my seven senses.
Within a stone's throw of it.
Let us make hay while the sun shines.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
Little said is soonest mended.
A close mouth catches no flies.
It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out.
Delay always breeds danger.
They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
More knave than fool.
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
I begin to smell a rat.
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
"There is no book so bad," said the bachelor, "but something good may be found in it."
Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
Remember the old saying, "Faint heart never won fair lady."
There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.
Let every man look before he leaps.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
He has an in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie.
Patience, and shuffle the cards.
Comparisons are odious.
Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.
The proof of the pudding is the eating.
He is as like one, as one egg is like another.
You can see farther into a millstone than he.
Sancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
Building castles in the air,and making yourself a laughing-stock.
It is good to live and learn.
He is as mad as a March hare.
I must follow him through thick and thin.
There is no love lost between us.
In the night all cats are gray.
All is not gold that glisters.
I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.
Honesty is the best policy.
Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.
A good name is better than riches.
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
Heaven's help is better than early rising.
I have other fish to fry.
There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.
But all in good time.
Matters will go swimmingly.
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot.
Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.
You may as well expect pears from an elm.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
You cannot eat your cake and have your cake; and store 's no sore.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
What a man has, so much he is sure of.
When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
The pot calls the kettle black.
This peck of troubles.
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
Liberty... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
As they use to say, spick and span new.
I think it a very happy accident.
I shall be as secret as the grave.
Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
Rome was not built in a day.
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
[fr. DonQuixote]"
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