Top 150 Quotes & Sayings by John Heywood
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English dramatist John Heywood.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Rome was not built in one day.
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
Many hands make light work.
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.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
The nearer to the church, the further from God.
The grey mare is the better horse.
For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell.
When the iron is hot, strike.
And death makes equal the high and low.
If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.
Pryde will have a fall;For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.
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.
Children and fooles cannot lye.
Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.
To give importance to trifling matters.
Every dog has its day.
She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
It hurts not the tongue to give faire words.
Hunger makes hard beans sweet.
Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.
It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.
Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
I know on which side my bread is buttered.
Better to be happy than wise.
Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.
What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
Cut your coat according to your cloth.
None so blind as those who won't see.
There is no fyre without some smoke.
Wedding is destiny,
And hanging likewise.
God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.
When the sunne shineth, make hay.
The moon is made of a green cheese.
All's well that ends well.
One swallow never makes a summer.
A cat may look at a king.
It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.
Beggars should be no choosers.
Hit the nail on the head.
Children and fools cannot lie.
Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.
Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
The more haste, the less speed.
Prove your friend ere you have need, but in deed
A friend is never known till a man have need.
Better is to bow than break.
No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.
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.
A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.
All things on earth thus change, some up, some down;
Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.
The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.
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