John Heywood Quotes
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Happy man, happy dole.
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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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A day after the faire.
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Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.
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Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me.
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A penny for your thought.
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Shee had seene far in a milstone.
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… I write for this Remembering and considering what the pith is, That by remembrance of these proverbs may grow. In this tale, erst talked with a friend, I show As many of them as we could fitly find Falling to purpose, that might fall in mind.
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Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother.
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It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.
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Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.
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Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
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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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I pray thee let me and my fellow haveA haire of the dog that bit us last night.
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Time trieth troth in every doubt.
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Ye can not sée the wood for trées.
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Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
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The moone is made of a greene cheese.
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That muche is my bowe bent to shoote at these marks, And kyll feare, when the sky falth we shall haue larks.
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A sleveless errand.