The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.

There is no love lost between us.

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.’ Yes,’ responded Sancho, ‘but I’ve heard that there are more friars in heaven than knights errant.’ That is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘because the number of religious is greater than the number of knights.’ There are many who are errant,’ said Sancho. Many,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but few who deserve to be called knights.

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.