John Heywood Quotes

• The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
• 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.
• Haste maketh waste.
• Good to be merry and wise.
• Look ere ye leap.
• He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay.
• The fat is in the fire.
• When the sun shineth, make hay.
• The tide tarrieth no man.
• Fast bind, fast find.
• And while I at length debate and beat the bush, There shall step in other men and catch the birds.
• Wedding is destiny, And hanging likewise.
• A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
• Like will to like.
• When the sky falleth we shall have larks.
• Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
• Hold their noses to grindstone.
• The nearer to the church, the further from God.
• Better is to bow than break.
• It hurteth not the tongue to give fair words.
• Two heads are better than one.
• To tell tales out of school.
• To hold with the hare and run with the hound.
• All is well that ends well.
• Of a good beginning cometh a good end.
• Better late than never.
• Ill weed groweth fast.
• Beggars should be no choosers.
• To rob Peter and pay Paul.
• A man may well bring a horse to water, But he cannot make him drink without he will.
• Rome was not built in one day.
• Children learn to creep ere they can learn to go.
• Better is half a loaf than no bread.
• Nought venture nought have.
• Children and fools cannot lie.
• Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?
• One good turn asketh another.
• A hair of the dog that bit us.
• But in deed, A friend is never known till a man have need.
• A woman hath nine lives like a cat.
• A penny for your thought.
• You cannot see the wood for the trees.
• Tit for tat.
• Three may keep counsel, if two be away.
• Many hands make light work.
• There is no fire without some smoke.
• Set the cart before the horse.
• The more the merrier.
• It is better to be An old man's darling than a young man's warling.
• The moon is made of greene cheese.
• I know on which side my bread is buttered.
• Love me, love my dog.
• An ill wind that bloweth no man to good.
• For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell.
• Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
• Every man for himself and God for us all.
• Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.
• This hitteth the nail on the head.

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