English Period

Famous quotes containing the words english and/or period:

    He that would the daughter win
    Must with the mother first begin.
    —17th-century English proverb, collected in J. Ray, English Proverbs (1670)

    Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
    Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)