Famous quotes containing the words northern and/or english:
“Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”
—18th-century English proverb.