Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.
Miguel de CervantesTo withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Miguel de CervantesUrgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
Miguel de CervantesI had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man?s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one?s self.
Miguel de Cervantes