— Si fueras caballero, como no lo eres, ya yo hubiera castigado tu sandez y atrevimiento, cautiva criatura. - Miguel de Cervantes

"It is a balsam," answered Don Quixote, "the receipt of which I have in my memory, with which one need have no fear of death, or dread dying of any wound; and so when I make it and give it to thee thou hast nothing to do when in some battle thou seest they have cut me in half through the middle of the body — as is wont to happen frequently, — but neatly and with great nicety, ere the blood congeal, to place that portion of the body which shall have fallen to the ground upon the other half which remains in the saddle, taking care to fit it on evenly and exactly. Then thou shalt give me to drink but two drops of the balsam I have mentioned, and thou shalt see me become sounder than an apple."

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Vos, hermano, idos a ser gobierno o ínsulo, y entonaos a vuestro gusto; que mi hija ni yo, por el siglo de mi madre, que no nos hemos de mudar un paso de nuestra aldea: la mujer honrada, la pierna quebrada, y en casa; y la doncella honesta, el hacer algo es su fiesta. Idos con vuestro don Quijote a vuestras aventuras, y dejadnos a nosotras con nuestras malas venturas, que Dios nos las mejorará como seamos buenas; y yo no sé, por cierto, quién le puso a él don, que no tuvieron sus padres ni sus agüelos.