Miguel de Cervantes

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Here is the devil-and-all to pay.

Said the pot to die kettle "Get away blackface."

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.

He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he who loses his courage loses all.

Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.

All will come out in the washing.

Every one is as God made him and often a great deal worse.

He who sings frightens away his ills.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

All that glisters is not gold.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.