Maxioms by Cervantes (miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
[Sp., No con quien naces, sino con read more
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
[Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.]
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
As ill-luck would have it.
As ill-luck would have it.
But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the
countryman, who looked for his ass while he read more
But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the
countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his
back.