Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Miracle me no miracles.

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

There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.

Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.