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

For truth there is no deadline. — Heywood Broun

Patients have the right to help themselves. — James 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

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares. — John Heywood

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

The more haste, the less speed. — John Heywood

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists. — Heywood Hale Broun

Two heads are better than one. — John Heywood

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

For the truth there is no deadline. — Heywood Broun

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

They migrated to the usual room on the second floor. Heywood Broun was there by the door, setting up bottles of gin, scotch and beer. Alexander Woollcott sat ensconced behind the round table (not THE Round Table). He shuffled the cards and stacked up poker chips.

Dorothy stopped in the doorway and watched what they were doing. 'You boys sure know how to treat a woman,' she said. 'Liquor in the front and poker in the rear. — J.J. Murphy

A woman hath nine lives like a cat. — John B. Heywood

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

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins. — Heywood Hale Broun

The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State ... steps in, and helps him catch and fleece his victims. The old plea of despotism, that liberty is unsafe, reappears now in the mistaken notion that competition is hostile to labor. — Ezra Heywood

Children and fooles cannot lye. — John Heywood

Beggars should be no choosers. — John Heywood

Rome was not built in one day. — John Heywood

Tatum plays so much piano it sounds impossible. The more I hear him, the more I want to give up the piano and drive a milk truck. — Eddie Heywood

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

A good wife maketh a good husband. — John Heywood

The grey mare is the better horse. — John Heywood

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

It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling — John Heywood

Death when to death a death by death hath given
Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven.
[Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).] — Thomas Heywood

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

Make hay while the sun shines. — John Heywood

A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng. — John Heywood

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. — Heywood Hale Broun

I do love a revolution! — Graham Heywood

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground. — Heywood Broun

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

When all candles be out, all cats be grey. — John Heywood

A short horse is soone currid. — John Heywood

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

Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment. — James Heywood

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

The freckle-faced corporal from Iowa grinned. "Geez, Major, whatever you gave that German broad last night sure got her talking. Was it some new Russian drug? Something from HQ?"

"That's my affair." Major Rosemary Wilson ignored the grinning boy and lit a cigarette, blowing out smoke as she gazed through the one way mirror. The German girl, Waller, looked pale and lost under the interrogation lights, but she was still exceptionally pretty. No doubt last night had been her first time with a woman. Still, Greta had been an enthusiastic learner, responsive and eager to please. The Major had every intention of continuing the girl's education -- once Werewolf and his Nazi pack were back behind bars. — Joseph Heywood

The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with." — Heywood Broun

He had a marvelously versatile gift for forgetting things. — Heywood Broun

Cut your coat according to your cloth. — John Heywood

Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke. — John Heywood

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

Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown. — Thomas Heywood

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

Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head. — Thomas Heywood

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

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

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

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? — John B. Heywood

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

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

Small pitchers have wyde eares. — John Heywood

Hit the nail on the head. — John Heywood

While sports are indisputably a positive source of strength and self-development for girls, they can accomplish this only if the environment in which female athletes throw their javelins, kick their soccer balls, and swim their fast and furious laps is an environment that respects girls and takes them seriously as athletes. — Leslie 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

Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder. — Ezra Heywood

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame. — Matthew Heywood

The rolling stone never gathereth mosse. — John Heywood

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

Look before you leap. — John Heywood

One good turn asketh another. — John Heywood

A hard beginning maketh a good ending. — John Heywood

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read. — Heywood Broun

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

If it's not difficult, it's not worth it. — Carey 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

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. — John Heywood

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all. — Heywood Broun

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

The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury? — Ezra 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

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

Children and fools cannot lie. — John Heywood

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

All is fish that comth to net. — 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

You are never listening to what someone is saying, you are only ever listening to what you are hearing — Julia Heywood

The tide tarrieth no man. — John Heywood

One swallow maketh not summer. — John Heywood

It takes nine tailors to make a man. — John Heywood

When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: "Join Ruth and see the world." — Heywood Broun

He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth. — John Heywood

Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone. — John Heywood

Ever been so happy for someone and so aware of how lonely their happiness makes you feel at the same time? — Carey Heywood

If you look at the first commercial transactions on the Internet, few of the early companies necessarily survived intact, but the ideas they invented became the industry. — James 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