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)
“Anger kills both laughter and joy;
What greater foe is there than anger?”
—Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)
“The English Bible—a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)