Famous quotes containing the words english proverb, seventeenth-century english, english and/or proverb:
“It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.”
—18th-century English proverb.
“A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.”
—Seventeenth-century English saying.
“French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)
“A mother understands what a child does not say.”
—Jewish Proverb (20th century)