He who has the good to his hand and chooses the bad, that the good he complains of may not come to him.
He seized a bucket and plunging it into one of the half jars took up three hens and a couple of geese,
He did not think about any promises his master had made to him, and he did not consider it work but sheer pleasure to go around seeking adventures, no matter how dangerous they might be.
Como por ver que es más el número de los simples que de los prudentes; y que, puesto que es mejor ser loado de los pocos sabios que burlado de los muchos necios, no quiero sujetarme al confuso juicio...
Bravamente la debe de tener herida y traspasada aquel que llaman Amor, que dicen que es un rapaz ceguezuelo que, con estar lagañoso, o, por mejor decir, sin vista, si toma por blanco un corazón, por p...
A quien cuece y amasa, no le hurtes hogaza;
Yo, Juan Gallo de Andrada, escribano de Cámara del Rey nuestro señor, de los que residen en su Consejo, certifico y doy fe que, habiendo visto por los señores dél un libro intitulado El ingenioso hida...
Yo conozco, con el natural entendimiento que Dios me ha dado, que todo lo hermoso es amable; mas no alcanzo que, por razón de ser amado, esté obligado lo que es amado por hermoso a amar a quien le ama...
Ye love-smitten host, know that to Dulcinea only I am dough and sugar-paste, flint to all others; for her I am honey, for you aloes. For
Y denme de comer, o si no, tómense su gobierno, que oficio que no da de comer a su dueño no vale dos habas.
Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
Where one door shuts, another opens.
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to...
What’s this then? the friend asked, crossing himself as if he had seen a ghost. Are you really Ensign Campuzano? Am I really seeing you around here? I thought you were in Flanders making free with you...
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
UNA NOVELA DE HOMBRES LIBRES Al mismo tiempo que una novela sobre la ficción, el Quijote es un canto a la libertad. Conviene detenerse un momento a reflexionar sobre la famosísima frase de don Quijote...
Today they make a law and tomorrow they break it, and maybe it’s better that way. After all, no sooner does somebody promise to change his habits than he immediately falls into worse ones. It’s one th...
Todas estas borrascas que nos suceden son señales de que presto ha de serenar el tiempo y han de sucedernos bien las cosas; porque no es posible que el mal ni el bien sean durables, y de aquí se sigue...
To win the good-will of the people thou governest there are two things, among others, that thou must do; one is to be civil to all (this, however, I told thee before), and the other to take care that...
There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.