John Heywood Quotes
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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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Happy man, happy dole.
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Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.
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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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Shee had seene far in a milstone.
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A penny for your thought.
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A day after the faire.
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Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother.
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Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me.
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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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Ye can not sée the wood for trées.
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Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
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Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.
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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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A sleveless errand.
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It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.
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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 cat may looke on a King.
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Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
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Rome was not built in one day.
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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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It is better to beAn old man's derling than a yong man's werling.
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It had need to beeA wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.