"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome."
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Miguel de Cervantes quotes (page 13 of 22)
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"I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice."
"There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war."
"As ill-luck would have it."
"Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn."
"Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes."
"There's no taking trout with dry breeches."
"Leap out of the frying pan into the fire."
"They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes"
"Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle."
"I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table."
"A person dishonored is worst than dead."
"There is no love lost between us."
"All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something."
"Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight."
"Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it."
"Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially."
"Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others."
"Everything disturbs an absent lover."
"I can tell where my own shoe pinches me."