Famous quotes containing the words english proverb, century and/or english:
“The shortest answer is doing.”
—English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.”
—Lao-Tzu (6th century B.C.)
“The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.”
—Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846)