John Heywood Quotes

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

John Heywood

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

John Heywood

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

John Heywood

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

John Heywood

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

John Heywood

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

John Heywood

#7. Look before you leap.

John Heywood

#8. Many handis make light warke.

John Heywood

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

John Heywood

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

John Heywood

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

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

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

John Heywood

#14. 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.

John Heywood

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

John Heywood

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

John Heywood

#17. A day after the faire.

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

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#19. Half a loaf is better than none.

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#20. Beggars should be no choosers.

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

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#22. A fooles bolt is soone shot.

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#23. Children and fools cannot lie.

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

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

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

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#27. All is fish that comth to net.

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

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#29. Make hay while the sun shines.

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

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

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

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

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#34. The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.

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

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

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#37. Every dog has its day.

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

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

John B. Heywood

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

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

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

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#43. Put your toong in your purse.

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

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#45. One swallow never makes a summer.

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#46. Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

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

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

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#49. Children and fooles cannot lye.

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

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#51. Small pitchers have wyde eares.

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#52. The more haste, the less speed.

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#53. A good wife maketh a good husband.

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#54. A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng.

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#55. Cut your coat according to your cloth.

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

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

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

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

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

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#61. 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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#62. Better to be happy than wise.

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

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

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#65. When the devil drives, needs must.

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#66. Happy man, happy dole.

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

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

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#69. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

John B. Heywood

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

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

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#72. Hit the nail on the head.

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

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

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

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

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#77. To give importance to trifling matters.

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#78. Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.

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

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

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

John B. Heywood

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

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

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

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#85. Better to give then to take.

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#86. Rome was not built in one day.

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

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

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

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

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

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#92. Better is to bow than breake.

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

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

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#95. When the sun shineth, make hay.

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#96. Time trieth troth in every doubt.

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#97. When the sunne shineth, make hay.

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#98. A short horse is soone currid.

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

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

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