de su vida: aquí amanecían, acullá comían; unas veces huían, sin saber de quién, y otras esperaban - Miguel de Cervantes

¡Ay señor! — dijo la sobrina — , bien los puede vuestra merced mandar quemar, como a los demás, porque no sería mucho que, habiendo sanado mi señor tío de la enfermedad caballeresca, leyendo éstos, se le antojase de hacerse pastor y andarse por los bosques y prados cantando y tañendo; y, lo que sería peor, hacerse poeta; que, según dicen, es enfermedad incurable y pegadiza.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and the goal of a good intention was never reached through its opposite, laziness.

O Don Quixote, wise as thou art brave,
La Mancha's splendor and of Spain the star!
To thee I say that if the peerless maid,
Dulcinea del Toboso, is to be restored
to the state that was once hers, it needs must be
that thy squire Sancho take on his bared behind,
those sturdy buttocks, must consent to take
three thousand lashes and three hundred more,
and well laid on, that they may sting and smart;
for those are the authors of her woe
have thus resolved, and that is why I've come,
This, gentles, is the word I bring to you.