John Heywood Quotes

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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.

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

John Heywood
Throw no gyft agayne at the geuers head,
For better is halfe a lofe than no bread.

John Heywood
Time is tickell, and out of sight out of minde.
Than catche and holde while I may, fast binde fast finde.

John Heywood
When the steed is stolen, shut the stable door.

John Heywood
A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But he cannot make him drink without he will.

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

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

John Heywood
Wedding is destiny,
And hanging likewise.

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

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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
Whan the sunne shinth make hay, whiche is to say,
Take time whan time comth, lest time steale away.

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Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

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Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee
That wilfully will neither heare nor see?

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Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.

John Heywood
... Better is to boow then breake.
It hurteth not the tounge to geue fayre wurdis.
The rough net is not the best catcher of Burdis.
Sense ye can nought wyn, if ye can not please,
Best is to suffre: For of sufferance comth ease.

John Heywood
Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.

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For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell.

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And once their hasty heat a little controlled,
Than perceive they well, hot love soon cold.
And when hasty witless mirth is mated well,
Good to be merry and wise, they think and feel.

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

John Heywood
That muche is my bowe bent to shoote at these marks,
And kyll feare, when the sky falth we shall haue larks.

John Heywood
Be the day never so long,
Evermore at last they ring to even-song.

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

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... Be they wynners or loosers,
… beggers should be no choosers.

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The nearer to the church, the further from God.

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To hold with the hare and run with the hound.

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

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Than farewell riches, the fat is in the fire,
And neuer shall I to like riches aspire.

John Heywood
I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A haire of the dog that bit us last night.

John Heywood