John Heywood Quotes

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Wolde ye bothe eate your cake, and haue your cake?

John Heywood
A hair of the dog that bit us. Proverbs, I, 11 But in deed, A friend is never known till a man have need.

John Heywood
Now for good luck, cast an old shoe after me.

John Heywood
Well aunt (quoth Ales) all is well that endes well.
Ye Ales, of a good begynnyng comth a good end.

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True (quoth Ales) thinges doone can not be vndoone,
Be they done in due tyme, to late, or to soone,
But better late than neuer to repent this,
To late (quoth my aunt) this repentance showd is,
Whan the stéede is stolne shut the stable durre.

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

John Heywood
Much water goeth by the mill
That the miller knoweth not of.

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All a green willow, willow,
All a green willow is my garland.

John Heywood
It had need to bee
A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.

John Heywood
It hurteth not the tongue to give fair words.

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

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

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Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?

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It is better to be
An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.

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Who hopeth in Gods helpe, his helpe can not starte:
Nothing is impossible to a willyng hart,
And will maie wyn my herte, herein to consent,
To take all thinges as it cometh, and be content.

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God never send'th mouth but he sendeth meat.

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And also I shall to reueng former hurtis,
Hold their noses to grinstone, and syt on theyr skurtis.

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Let the world wag, and take mine ease in mine inn.

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

John Heywood
While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.

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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.

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It is a deere collop
That is cut out of th' owne flesh.

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And ones their hastie heate a littell controlde,
Than perceiue they well, hotte love soone colde.
And whan hasty witlesse mirth is mated weele,
Good to be mery and wise, they thinke and feele.

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Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.

John Heywood
Lyke a pyckpurs pilgrim, ye prie and ye proule
At rouers, to rob Peter and paie Poule.

John Heywood
He must needs go whom the devil doth drive.

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

John Heywood
Children learn to creep ere they can learn to go.

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Rome was not built in one daie (quoth he) and yet stood
Till it was finist, as some say, full faire.

John Heywood