Miguel de Cervantes
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
'Also, Sancho, you must not interlard your conversation with the great many number of proverbs you usually do; for though proverbs are maxims in brief, you often drag them in by the hair, and they seem more like nonsense.'
'Let God look after that,' answered Sancho, 'for I know more proverbs than a book, and so many of them come altogether into my mouth when I speak that they fight one another to get out; and the tongue seizes hold of the first it meets with, even though it mayn't be just to the point.'
—Miguel de Cervantes, The Adventures of Don Quixote, 1605
Posted on March 15, 1999 at 1:07 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
—Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605
Posted on September 12, 2002 at 7:49 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
—Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
Posted on April 29, 2002 at 6:21 AM
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