Sancho Panza

Character in Don Quixote From: Don Quixote

Don Quixote's squire; provides comic relief and earthy wisdom through memorable proverbs and witty commentary

153 quotes

"The kindest words cost nothing yet purchase much."
Kindness
"Hunger is the best sauce in the world."
Life
"All sorrows are bearable if there is bread."
Wisdom
"A closed mouth catches no flies."
Wisdom
"Fair words make me not a merchant."
Truth
"In the night all cats are grey."
Wisdom
"Patience is a plaster for all sores."
Patience
"The poor man's wisdom often surpasses the rich man's folly."
Wisdom
"Words are cheap, but deeds are precious."
Wisdom
"He who does not know how to weep does not know how to laugh."
Humor
"All sorrows are bearable if there is bread."
Wisdom
"He is a fool who leaves his home, turns his back on his friends, and trusts himself to fortune."
Wisdom
"What is the use of a fine house if you haven't a decent place to sit in it?"
Life
"Better a modest certainty than a grand hope."
Wisdom
"A lie has no legs to run on, but truth has wings to fly."
Truth
"The greatest riches is a contented mind."
Happiness
"Every dog has his day, and the cat may follow."
Hope
"The tongue is the sword of a woman, and she never lets it rust."
Humor
"There is no greater madness than to lose one's mind for love."
Love
"Hunger is the best sauce in the world."
Happiness
"All sorrows are bearable if there is bread."
Wisdom
"Everything is good when it's finished."
Perseverance
"One should not talk of halters in the house of a man who has been hanged."
Kindness
"Where is the horse and the lace and the fine raiment?"
Humor
"Fear hath a hundred eyes."
Fear
"The belly carries the legs and not the legs the belly."
Humor
"Fair words cost nothing and accomplish much."
Kindness
"Better a tooth out of the mouth than cares in the heart."
Happiness
"The more the merrier the less the cost."
Humor
"He who loves not wine women and song remains a fool his whole life long."
Life