John Heywood Quotations

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

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.

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

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

Feed by measure, and defy the physician.

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

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?This is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're cake and eat it, too.

Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low

One swallow maketh not a summer. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

One swallow maketh not a summer. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

More things belong to marriage than four bare legs in a bed. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

More things belong to marriage than four bare legs in a bed. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

Out of the frying pan into the fire. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

Out of the frying pan into the fire. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

Many hands make light work. The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

Three may keep counsel, if two are away.

The technology in cars and light trucks has been steadily improving. But what we have done is buy bigger, larger, more powerful, faster-accelerating vehicles, with more onboard amenities -- and all of that efficiency gain has been used up.

One good turn deserves another. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

One good turn deserves another. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

It may be too soon to say we hit bottom, but it's at least some indication that there isn't a lot lower to go.

The next new engine isnt going to save mankind from its energy crisis, ... If theyre lucky, they might get a niche market.

The next new engine isn't going to save mankind from its energy crisis, ... If they're lucky, they might get a niche market.

No man ought to look a given horse in the mouth. The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

No man ought to look a given horse in the mouth. The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

The world's a theatre, the earth a stage, / Which God and nature do with actors fill.

They can legally cash in that account and spend it as they wish.

A fooles bolt is soone shot.

All is fish that comth to net.

The still sowe eats up all the draffe.

Put your toong in your purse.

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.

All's well that ends well.

Half a loaf is better than none.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

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.

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

One swallow never makes a summer.

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

The more haste, the less speed.

The tide tarrieth no man.

One swallow maketh not summer.

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

There is no fyre without some smoke.

Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?

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.

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

It takes nine tailors to make a man.

It is good the have a hatch before the durre.

When the sun shineth, make hay.

To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.

To give importance to trifling matters.

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

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

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

Tell tales out of school.

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

The wise man sayth, store is no sore.

Might have gone further and have fared worse.

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

The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.

Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.

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

A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng.

A short horse is soone currid.

Ill wéede growth fast.

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

All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

When the devil drives, needs must.

Better to give then to take.

There is no fool to the old fool.

Children and fools cannot lie.

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

Children and fooles cannot lye.

He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth.

When the sunne shineth, make hay.

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

Every dog has its day.

Hit the nail on the head.

Small pitchers have wyde eares.

Beggars should be no choosers.

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

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

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

When the iron is hot, strike.

Better is to bow than breake.

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

And death makes equal the high and low.

It hurteth not the toung to give faire words.

Look before you leap.

There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.

She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.

It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling

Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.