Top 100 Heywood Quotes
#3. It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.
John Heywood
#4. Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.
John Heywood
#8. Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong.
John Heywood
#11. Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.
John Heywood
#12. It had need to bee
A wylie mouse that should breed in the cat's care.
John Heywood
#14. Oh God, Oh God! that it were possible
To undo things done; to call back yesterday!
That time could turn up her swift and sandy glass,
To untell days, and to redeem these hours.
Thomas Heywood
#17. For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell.
John Heywood
#19. The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
John Heywood
#20. Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Heywood Broun
#21. We must treat ideas somewhat as though they were baby fish. Throw thousands out into the waters. Only a handful will survive but that is plenty.
Anne Heywood
#22. Beyond gravity, some of that freedom was regained; with the loss of weight went many of the cares and worries of Earth. Heywood
Arthur C. Clarke
#23. Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
John Heywood
#24. God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.
John Heywood
#25. It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.
John Heywood
#26. Let's see," mused the dragon, "that doesn't tell us much, does it? What sort of a word is this? Is it an epithet, do you think?"
Gawaine could do no more than nod.
"Why, of course," exclaimed the dragon, "reactionary Republican.
Heywood Broun
#27. Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.
John Heywood
#28. The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.
John Heywood
#33. Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
Heywood Broun
#35. No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
John Heywood
#36. Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.
John Heywood
#39. Tatum plays so much piano it sounds impossible. The more I hear him, the more I want to give up the piano and drive a milk truck.
Eddie Heywood
#40. That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.
Thomas Heywood
#43. The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins.
Heywood Hale Broun
#45. Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
John Heywood
#46. Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.
John Heywood
#47. Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.
Matthew Heywood
#49. The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.
John Heywood
#50. Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
John Heywood
#51. It hurteth not the toung to give faire words.
John Heywood
#52. I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
Heywood Broun
#56. Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
Heywood Broun
#58. No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.
John Heywood
#59. Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.
John Heywood
#60. But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
John Heywood
#64. I pray thee let me and my fellow have a haire of the dog that bit us last night.
John Heywood
#69. All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.
John Heywood
#70. The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."
Heywood Broun
#73. Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment.
James Heywood
#74. If you think you can just go out and ask all the doctors in the world about what the did to all the patients and you think we can connect that into something useful, go talk to someone who has done that because we can't.
James Heywood
#75. It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.
John Heywood
#77. Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.
Heywood Broun
#79. Nought venture, nought have.
[Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]
John Heywood
#81. The nearer to the church, the further from God.
John Heywood
#82. Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow
Part equally among us; storms divided,
Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.
John Heywood
#83. The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun
#86. Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.
John Heywood
#87. Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.
John Heywood
#88. Went in at the one ear and out at the other.
John Heywood
#90. The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
Heywood Hale Broun
#91. It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.
John Heywood
#92. Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
John Heywood
#95. Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.
John Heywood
#96. When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.
John Heywood
#97. Please. It's one word, but the way I say it means so much more. Please don't say anything. Please don't look at me. Please don't hurt me. Please just stay away. Please.
Carey Heywood
#98. Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.
Heywood Hale Broun
#99. Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
John Heywood
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