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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… 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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Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.
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A penny for your thought.
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Shee had seene far in a milstone.
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Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother.
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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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Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me.
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Ye can not sée the wood for trées.
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A day after the faire.
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Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.
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Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
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Time trieth troth in every doubt.
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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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It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.
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A cat may looke on a King.
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A sleveless errand.
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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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A man maie well bring a horse to the water, but he can not make him drinke without he will.
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The moone is made of a greene cheese.
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Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?
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Throw no gyft agayne at the geuers head, For better is halfe a lofe than no bread.