Famous quotes containing the words english proverb, english and/or proverb:
“He that bulls the cow must keep the calf.”
—Sixteenth-century English proverb.
“We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
“Fast bind, fast find,
A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)