Top 100 John Heywood Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About John Heywood

Top 100 John Heywood Quotes

#1. The still sowe eats up all the draffe.

#2. It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.

#3. Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

#4. There is no fool to the old fool.

#5. Hit the nail on the head.

#6. The moon is made of a green cheese.

#7. Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong.

#8. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

John B. Heywood

#9. Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.

#10. It had need to bee
A wylie mouse that should breed in the cat's care.

#11. Happy man, happy dole.

#12. When the devil drives, needs must.

#13. Small pitchers have wyde eares.

#14. For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell.

#15. Better to be happy than wise.

#16. The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

#17. Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.

#18. God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.

#19. It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

#20. Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.

#21. The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

#22. Cut your coat according to your cloth.

#23. A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng.

#24. A good wife maketh a good husband.

#25. The more haste, the less speed.

#26. No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.

#27. Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.

#28. Better is half a loaf than no bread.

#29. A short horse is soone currid.

#30. When the sunne shineth, make hay.

#31. Time trieth troth in every doubt.

#32. When the sun shineth, make hay.

#33. Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

#34. Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.

#35. Better is to bow than breake.

#36. The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.

#37. Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

#38. It hurteth not the toung to give faire words.

#39. An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.

#40. Don't put the cart before the horse.

#41. Rome was not built in one day.

#42. Better to give then to take.

#43. No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

#44. Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.

#45. But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!

#46. A woman hath nine lives like a cat.

John B. Heywood

#47. It's an ill wind that blows no good.

#48. I pray thee let me and my fellow have a haire of the dog that bit us last night.

#49. Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.

#50. To give importance to trifling matters.

#51. Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

John B. Heywood

#52. The happy man's without a shirt.

#53. All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.

#54. Children and fools cannot lie.

#55. A fooles bolt is soone shot.

#56. It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.

#57. Beggars should be no choosers.

#58. Half a loaf is better than none.

#59. Nought venture, nought have.
[Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]

#60. A day after the faire.

#61. The nearer to the church, the further from God.

#62. Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow
Part equally among us; storms divided,
Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.

#63. Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.

#64. Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.

#65. Went in at the one ear and out at the other.

#66. Three may keep counsel, if two be away.

#67. It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.

#68. Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

#69. Many handis make light warke.

#70. Look before you leap.

#71. Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.

#72. When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.

#73. Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

#74. And death makes equal the high and low.

#75. He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay.

#76. 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.

#77. None so blind as those who won't see.

#78. Children and fooles cannot lye.

#79. Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?

#80. I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.

#81. Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

#82. One swallow never makes a summer.

#83. It is better to beAn old man's derling than a yong man's werling.

#84. Put your toong in your purse.

#85. Feed by measure, and defy the physician.

#86. Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.

#87. The wise man sayth, store is no sore.

#88. It takes nine tailors to make a man.

#89. It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling

#90. Every dog has its day.

#91. Pryde will have a fall;For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.

#92. Might have gone further and have fared worse.

#93. The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.

#94. A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

#95. When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

#96. But in deede, A friend is never knowne till a man have neede.

#97. I know on which side my bread is buttered.

#98. Make hay while the sun shines.

#99. If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.

#100. All is fish that comth to net.

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