John Heywood Quotations | Page 2

This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.

And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.

Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.

A cat may looke on a King.

Happy man, happy dole.

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

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

Time trieth troth in every doubt.

Love me litle, love me long. 1546

Of a good beginning cometh a good end.

One good turne asketh another.

Good to be merie and wise.

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.

None so blind as those who won't see.

A cat may look at a king.

God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.

Make hay while the sun shines.

A good wife maketh a good husband.

Hunger makes hard beans sweet.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

Better is half a loaf than no bread.

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

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

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

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

An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.

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

A day after the faire.

A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.

Nought venture nought have.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.

A woman hath nine lives like a cat.

Three may keep counsel, if two be away.

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

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

Two heads are better than one.

Many hands make light work.

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

The happy man's without a shirt.

Better to be happy than wise.

While the grass groweth the horse starveth.

The grey mare is the better horse.

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

Rome was not built in one day.

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

Burnt child fire dredth.

Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.

If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.

It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.

The more the merrier.

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a nettle green (as th'emeraude) spread in a bed of roses like the ruby red. Between which two colors he thought, but his eye, The green nettle did the red rose beautify. "How be it," he asked the nettle, "what thing Made him so pert? So nigh the Rose to Spring.

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

Little pitchers have big ears.

It's an ill wind that blows no good.

One good turn asketh another.

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.

Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

Beggars can't be choosers.

When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.

I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.

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

Many handis make light warke.

Thrée maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away.

So many heads so many wits.

The moon is made of a green cheese.

Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.