A Quote by John Heywood
It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.
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Like a young eaglet that gets pushed out of the nest at the appropriate time, a young man must learn to fly on his own. If the nest is too cushy, if all of his creature comforts are there for his enjoyment, then he may set up his high-definition television and perch for a while.
He [the householder] is the appointer of his owne circumstance, and his house is his castle.
Bill Clinton was doing Ku Klux Klan grand kleagel jokes at Byrd's funeral, saying, Oh, Robert C. Byrd, he used the - he was the grand kleagel. He just did what he had to do.
Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter.
Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.
He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.
Hee that keepes his owne makes warre.
Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.
I think that an anthill is better than a nest ... that in the anthill among a hundred thousand or a million you are freer than in a nest, where all sit around and look at one another, waiting until scientists finally discover ways to make us mind readers. ... the psychology of the nest is loathsome to me, and I always sympathize with one who flees his nest, even if he flees into an anthill, where it may be crowded but one can find solitude - that most natural, most worthy state of man, that precious and intense state of being conscious of the world and of oneself.
It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender.
Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich.
He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee hath laid out.
The Patron of true Holinesse,
Foule Errour doth defeate:
Hypocrisie him to entrappe,
Doth to his home entreate.
Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the evening. Similarly, in the spiritual world, divine music comes from the inmost soul of Silence.
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