Famous quotes containing the words english proverb, english and/or proverb:
“Death is a shadow that always follows the body.”
—14th-century English proverb.
“The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, “All summer in the field, and all winter in the study.” And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)