Famous quotes containing the words english proverb, english and/or proverb:
“The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.”
—18th-century English proverb.
“The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“Fast bind, fast find,
A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)