Famous quotes containing the words english proverb, seventeenth-century english and/or english:
“While the doctors consult, the patient dies.”
—English proverb</i>.
“A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.”
—Seventeenth-century English saying.
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are “check enclosed.””
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)