Famous quotes containing the words english proverb, english and/or proverb:
“Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.”
—English proverb, collected in George Herbert’s Outlandish Proverbs (1640)
“Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“As the proverb says, “a good beginning is half the business” and “to have begun well” is praised by all.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)