Famous quotes containing the words eighteenth-century english proverb, eighteenth-century english and/or english:
“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.”
—Eighteenth-century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)
“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.”
—Eighteenth-century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)
“The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.”
—18th-century English proverb.