Top 100 John Heywood Quotes
#2. It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.
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#3. Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.
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#5. Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong.
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#7. It had need to bee
A wylie mouse that should breed in the cat's care.
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#11. For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell.
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#13. The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
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#14. Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
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#15. God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.
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#16. It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.
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#17. Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.
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#18. The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.
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#22. No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
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#23. Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.
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#29. Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.
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#30. Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
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#31. It hurteth not the toung to give faire words.
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#34. No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.
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#35. Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.
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#36. But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
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#40. It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.
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#43. Nought venture, nought have.
[Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]
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#45. The nearer to the church, the further from God.
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#46. Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow
Part equally among us; storms divided,
Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.
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#47. Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.
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#48. Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.
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#49. Went in at the one ear and out at the other.
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#50. It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.
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#51. Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
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#54. Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.
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#55. Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
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#56. He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay.
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#57. If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
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#59. Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?
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#62. It is better to beAn old man's derling than a yong man's werling.
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#67. It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling
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#68. Might have gone further and have fared worse.
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#70. When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
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#71. But in deede, A friend is never knowne till a man have neede.
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#72. I know on which side my bread is buttered.
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#74. If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.
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#76. What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?
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#77. Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.
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#78. Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
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#79. It is good the have a hatch before the durre.
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#80. He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth.
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#82. Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke,Yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in,Not for the poke, but the pyg good chepe to wyn.
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#83. Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.
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#84. This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.
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#86. To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.
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#89. A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.
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#91. While the grass groweth the horse starveth.
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#94. Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.
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#97. When all candels be out, all cats be grey,All thingis are then of one colour, as who sey.And this prouerbe faith, for quenching hot desyre,Foul water as soone as fayre, will quenche hot fyre.
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#99. He makes a beggar first that first relieves him;
Not us'rers make more beggars where they live
Than charitable men that use to give.
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