Famous quotes containing the words english proverb, english and/or proverb:
“‘Tis money that begets money.”
—English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)
“He that bulls the cow must keep the calf.”
—Sixteenth-century English proverb.
“Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you’ve watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)