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A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.

A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued

A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

A good name is better than bags of gold.

A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.’ Yes,’ responded Sancho, ‘but I’ve heard that there are more friars in heaven than knights errant.’ That is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘because the number of religious is greater than the number of knights.’ There are many who are errant,’ said Sancho. Many,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but few who deserve to be called knights.

All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

All sorrows are less with bread.

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.

A man prepared has half fought the battle.

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.

And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.

A shy face is better than a forward heart.

A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

Behind the cross is the devil.

Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.

Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.

Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.

Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.

But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.

Comparisons are odious.

Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Delay always breeds danger.