He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that’s all the divinity I understand

There’s a remedy for everything except death

Without a governorship you came out of your mother’s womb, without a governorship you’ve lived to this day, and without a governorship you’ll go – or they’ll take you – to the grave.

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

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

There’s not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault

`If I had a water thirst,’ replied Sancho, `there are wells on the road where I could have quenched it.’

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, where one is fain...

Absence, that common cure of love.

Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.

Honesty’s the best policy

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

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

Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end

Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.

God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all men’s thoughts, the food that cures all hunger . . . the balancing weight that levels the shepherd with the king and the simple...

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

Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread.

The sage left nothing in his ink-horn.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

A man dishonored is worse than dead

Never meddle with play-actors, for they’re a favoured race.

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

I hate to keep things long in case they go mouldy from over-keeping.

I have other fish to fry.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry,...

One man is no more than another if he does no more than another

In hell there is no retention.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

There’s no sauce in the world like hunger

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.

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.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ”there were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.”

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

That which costs little is less valued.

If that should not be, cousin, I say: patience and shuffle the cards.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.