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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Shee had seene far in a milstone.
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A penny for your thought.
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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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I pray thee let me and my fellow haveA haire of the dog that bit us last night.
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Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
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Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
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Ye can not sée the wood for trées.
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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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The moone is made of a greene cheese.
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Time trieth troth in every doubt.
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Rome was not built in one day.
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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.
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It is better to beAn old man's derling than a yong man's werling.
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She speaketh as she would créepe into your bosome. And when the meale mouth hath woon the bottome of your stomake, than will the pickthanke it tell To your most enmies, you to bye and fell. To tell tales out of schoole, that is hir great lust. Looke what she knowth, blab it wist, out it must.
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A sleveless errand.
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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.