Famous quotes containing the words english proverb and/or english:
“Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”
—18th-century English proverb.
“That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)