| Quotes |
Topic |
| Ability | You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into. |
| Appearance | All that glisters is not gold. |
| Authorship | The pen is the tongue of the mind. |
| Beauty | All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections. |
| Birds | You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff. |
| Birds | Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last. |
| Cards | Patience and shuffle the cards. |
| Change | Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle. |
| Cleanliness | All will come out in the washing. |
| Companionship | Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art. |
| Comparisons | Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken? |
| Content | I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it. |
| Criticism | Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." |
| Devil | Here is the devil-and-all to pay. |
| Drinking | I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion. |
| Eating | All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. |
| Eating | The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach. |
| Eating | The proof of the pudding is in the eating. |
| Education | Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. |
| Evil | Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. |
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