Top 100 Saavedra Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Saavedra

#1. The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)

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#2. When a rich man is hurt, his wail goeth heavens high. (Sancho Panza)

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#3. But to give him anything to drink was impossible, or would have been so had not the landlord bored a reed, and putting one end in his mouth poured the wine into him through the other; all which he bore with patience rather than sever the ribbons of his helmet.

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#4. Path of knight-errantry, and in pursuit of that calling I despise wealth, but not honour. I

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#5. There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha

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#6. Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

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#7. 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.

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#8. She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

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#9. 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.

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#10. The village to sell (saving your presence) four pigs, and between dues and cribbings they got out of me little less than the worth of them. As

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#11. He who has the good to his hand and chooses the bad, that the good he complains of may not come to him.

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#12. For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

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#13. But once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads

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#14. Halt! ill-born rabble, follow him not nor pursue him, or ye will have to reckon with me in battle!

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#15. Now, tell me which is the greater deed, raising a dead man or killing a giant?" "The answer is self-evident," responded Don Quixote. "It is greater to raise a dead man.

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#16. I betook myself to these solitudes, resolved to end here the life I hated as if it were my mortal enemy. But fate would not rid me of it, contenting itself with robbing me of my reason,

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#17. Everything I have done, am doing, and shall do follows the dictates of reason and the laws of chivalry,

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#18. Love and war are exactly alike. It is lawful to use tricks and slights to obtain a desired end.

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#19. There was no more beautiful creature in the whole world

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#20. Perceived a cart covered with royal flags coming along the road they were travelling; and persuaded that this must be some new adventure,

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#21. 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.

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#22. Friend to friend no more draws near, and the jester's cane has become a spear

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#23. I have always heard it said, Sancho, that to do good to boors is to throw water into the sea.

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#24. 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

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#25. He who sings scares away his woes.

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#26. The road is always better than the inn.

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#27. Heaven send us better times! There is nothing but plotting and counter-plotting, undermining and counter-mining in this world.

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#28. for a knight-errant without love was like a tree without leaves or fruit, or a body without a soul.

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#29. Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond

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#30. I wouldn't dare to put a pinpoint between a woman's yes and no.there wouldn't be room

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#31. Hear me now, o thou bleak and unbearable world
Thou art base and debauched as can be.
And a knight with his banners all bravely unfurled
Now hurls down his gauntlet to thee

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#32. When a man knows not how to read, or is left-handed, it

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#33. Thou knowest that my voice is sweet, That is if thou dost hear; And I am moulded in a form Somewhat below the mean.

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#34. According to an ancient and common tradition in the kingdom of Great Britain, this king did not die, but was transformed into a raven by the art of enchantment and, in the course of time, he shall return to rule again and regain his kingdom and his scepter.

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#35. 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 ...

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#36. Your Grace is more fit to be a preacher than a knight-errant," said Sancho. "Knights-errant

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#37. Good painters imitate nature, but bad ones spew it up.

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#38. Love is invisible, and comes in and goes out as he likes, without anyone calling him to account for what he does.

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#39. Anyone who is ignorant, even a lord and prince, can and should be counted as one of the mob.

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#40. In the shadow of feigned cripples and false wounds come the strong arms of thieves and very healthy drunkards.

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#41. And letting out thirty groans and sixty sighs and one hundred and twenty curses on the head of the person who'd brought him there, he hauled himself to his feet,

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#42. Consider, that no jewel upon earth is comparable to a woman of virtue and honor; and, that the honor of the sex consists in the fair characters they maintain.

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#43. Another thing to strive for: reading your history should move the melancholy to laughter, increase the joy of the cheerful, not irritate the simple, fill the clever with admiration for its invention, not give the serious reason to scorn it, and allow the prudent to praise it.

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#44. The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

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#45. Didn't i tell you they were only windmills? And someone with windmills on the brain could have failed to see that!

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#46. Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.

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#47. They were puffing at him with a great pair of bellows; for the whole adventure was so well planned by the duke, the duchess, and their majordomo, that nothing was omitted to make it perfectly successful.

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#48. I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.

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#49. Sancho, just as you want people to believe what you have seen in the sky, I want you to believe what I saw in the Cave of Montesinos. And that is all I have to say.

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#50. A closed mouth catches no flies.

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#51. It is by rugged paths like these they go That scale the heights of immortality, Unreached by those that falter here below.

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#52. Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued

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#53. Casildea de Vandalia, the rawest and best

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#54. The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.

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#55. 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.

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#56. Couldst thou find no other sort of punishment for these sinners but bearding them?

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#57. Faint heart never won fair maiden

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#58. Let his sin be his punishment, let him eat it with his bread, and let that be an end to it.

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#59. I will take my corporal oath that we move no faster than a snail can gallop, or an ant can trot.

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#60. To retire is not to flee, and there is no wisdom in waiting when danger outweighs hope, and it is the part of wise men to preserve themselves to-day for to-morrow, and not risk all in one day.

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#61. You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch on his throne.

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#62. Believe me, fair lady, you may call yourself fortunate in having in this castle of yours sheltered my person, which is such that if I do not myself praise it, it is because of what is commonly said, that self-praise debaseth;

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#63. One man is no more than another, if he do no more than what another does.

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#64. Fortune always leaves a door open in adversity in order to bring relief to it,

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#65. [He] is not going to exit to applause, even if the entire human race should favor him.

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#66. This was the first time that he thoroughly felt and believed himself to be a knight-errant in reality and not merely in fancy, now that he saw himself treated in the same way as he had read of such knights being treated in days of yore.

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#67. And many folks think there's bacon when there's not even a hook to hang it on.

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#68. Men have to have friends even in hell.

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#69. ...without intelligence, there can be no humour.

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#70. An escape from penalty is better than petitioning the judges.

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#71. He was by profession a humanist, and that his pursuits and studies were making books for the press,

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#72. The pen is the tongue of the mind.

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#73. I have vanquished giants, and I have sent villains and malefactors to her, but where can they find her if she has been enchanted and transformed into the ugliest peasant girl anyone can imagine?

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#74. Mind, Sancho, I do not say that a proverb aptly brought in is objectionable; but to pile up and string together proverbs at random makes conversation dull and vulgar.

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#75. Never mind what some will say, for then thou wilt never have done. One may as soon tie up the winds, as the tongues of slanderers.

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#76. As soon as Don Quixote had read the inscription on the parchment he perceived clearly that it referred to the disenchantment of Dulcinea, and returning hearty thanks to heaven that he

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#77. Secondly, thou must keep in view what thou art, striving to know thyself, the

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#78. 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.

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#79. What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.

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#80. My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

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#81. Thou hast seen nothing yet.

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#82. I know who I am," said Don Quixote, "and who I may be, if I choose: not only those I have mentioned but all the Twelve Peers of France and the Nine Worthies as well; for the exploits of all of them together, or separately, cannot compare with mine.

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#83. Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.

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#84. All we want now is to find out what king, Christian or pagan, is at war and has a beautiful daughter;

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#85. The sadness of the heart rises to the face, and in the eyes may be read the history of that which passes in the soul.

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#86. In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing.

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#87. Front of them all came a wooden castle drawn by four wild men, all clad in ivy and hemp stained green, and looking so natural that they nearly terrified Sancho. On the front of the castle and on each of the

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#88. I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

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#89. Happy the age, happy the time, to which the ancients gave the name of golden, not because in that fortunate age the gold so coveted in this our iron one was gained without toil, but because they that lived in it knew not the two words "mine" and "thine"!

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#90. But I have heard it said," said Don Quixote, "that troubles take wing for the man who can sing.

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#91. yet the poor knight still didn't wake up, until the barber brought a large bucketful of cold water from the well and drenched him from head to toe, and then he did awaken, but not fully enough to be aware of his situation.

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#92. The ability to reason the un-reason which has afflicted by reason saps my ability to reason, so that I complain with good reason of your infinite loveliness.

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#93. The proof of the pudding is the eating.

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#94. I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.

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#95. All I can say,' said Sancho, "is that I perceived a masculine scent about her which must have been because, with so much hard labor, she was sweaty and somewhat slimy." "It

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