John Heywood Quotes & Sayings

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. — John Heywood

I know on which side my bread is buttered. — John Heywood

When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre. — John Heywood

Three may keep counsel, if two be away. — John Heywood

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. — John Heywood

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

Better to be happy than wise. — John Heywood

To say that which is instructive and also pleasing. — John Heywood

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares. — John Heywood

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote. — John Heywood

Tell tales out of school. — John Heywood

The more haste, the less speed. — John Heywood

When the sun shineth, make hay. — John Heywood

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

Two heads are better than one. — John Heywood

The moon is made of a green cheese. — John Heywood

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

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. — John Heywood

Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of. — John Heywood

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

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

Every dog has its day. — John Heywood

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

Children and fooles cannot lye. — John Heywood

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

Beggars should be no choosers. — John Heywood

Don't put the cart before the horse. — John Heywood

Love me litle, love me long. 1546 — John Heywood

A good wife maketh a good husband. — John Heywood

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

The still sowe eats up all the draffe. — John Heywood

The grey mare is the better horse. — John Heywood

Put your toong in your purse. — John Heywood

Went in at the one ear and out at the other. — John Heywood

It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest. — John Heywood

Make hay while the sun shines. — John Heywood

A day after the faire. — John Heywood

A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng. — John Heywood

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

Happy man, happy dole. — John Heywood

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

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men. — John Heywood

Many handis make light warke. — John Heywood

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

When the iron is hot, strike. — John Heywood

A fooles bolt is soone shot. — John Heywood

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. — John Heywood

The happy man's without a shirt. — John Heywood

Better is to bow than breake. — John Heywood

It hurteth not the toung to give faire words. — John Heywood

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee. — John Heywood

An ill winde that bloweth no man to good. — John Heywood

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe! — John Heywood

Might have gone further and have fared worse. — John Heywood

There is no fyre without some smoke. — John Heywood

When the sunne shineth, make hay. — John Heywood

While the grass groweth the horse starveth. — John Heywood

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

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

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

Feed by measure, and defy the physician. — John Heywood

If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained. — John Heywood

The rolling stone never gathereth mosse. — John Heywood

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

The tide tarrieth no man. — John Heywood

One swallow maketh not summer. — John Heywood

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. — John Heywood

One good turn asketh another. — John Heywood

The wise man sayth, store is no sore. — John Heywood

This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies. — John Heywood

So many heads so many wits. — John Heywood

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

All is fish that comth to net. — John Heywood

There is no fool to the old fool. — John Heywood

Hit the nail on the head. — John Heywood

A hard beginning maketh a good ending. — John Heywood

Better to give then to take. — John Heywood

The nearer to the church, the further from God. — John Heywood

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

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

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

It's an ill wind that blows no good. — John Heywood

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

And death makes equal the high and low. — John Heywood

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

Small pitchers have wyde eares. — John Heywood

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

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

For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell. — John Heywood

It is good the have a hatch before the durre. — John Heywood

Cut your coat according to your cloth. — John Heywood

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

A short horse is soone currid. — John Heywood

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest. — John Heywood

Good to be merie and wise. — John Heywood

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

Better is half a loaf than no bread. — John Heywood

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. — John Heywood

Children and fools cannot lie. — John Heywood

All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland. — John Heywood