Sixteenth-century English Proverb.

Famous quotes containing the words english proverb and/or english:

    The offender never pardons.
    English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)

    I would walk from here to Drogheda and back to see the man who is blockhead enough to expect anything except injustice from an English Parliament.
    Daniel O’Connell (1775–1847)