John Heywood Quote

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


Be Merry Friends; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


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

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

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

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