By the way, speaking of quote investigations, I want to figure out how this fake Cervantes quote came about: Time ripens all things. No man is born wise. B

By the way, speaking of quote investigations, I want to figure out how this fake Cervantes quote came about: Time ripens all things. No man is born wise. Bishops are made of men and not of stones. The fake part is "time ripens all things." Cervantes didn't write that part in Chapter 33 of Don Quixote II. The rest is indeed said by the Duchess to Sancho. The cheesy empty word play of "time" and "ripens" struck me as odd for Cervantes and more like something that Heidegger would write in Being and Time such as "time is the ripening of temporality". As an amateur Cervantes scholar I looked it up, but I could not find any Don Quixote translation that has the phrase, yet it always appears this way in English quote collections, which all seem to quote each other. It's even in Wikiquote. I first encountered it in xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1704/ http://xkcd.com/1704/ So, who added that "time ripens all things" crap?