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

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

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.

The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.