One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

Comparisons are odious.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.

Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

When you are at Rome, do as you see.