Famous quotes containing the words english proverb, english and/or proverb:
“The offender never pardons.”
—English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)
“O friend unseen, unborn, unknown,
Student of our sweet English tongue,
Read out my words at night, alone:
I was a poet, I was young.”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)
“Fast bind, fast find,
A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)