Miguel de Cervantes

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

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

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

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

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

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.