Miguel de Cervantes

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Mum is the word.

God bears with the wicked but not forever.

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

Ne'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.

They who lose today may win tomorrow.

One swallow alone does not make the summer.

Make hay while the sun shines.

There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.

All sorrows are bearable if there is bread.

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

The brave man carves out his fortune and every man is the sum of his own works.

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

Dine on little and sup on less.

Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.