John Heywood Quotes
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Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
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Throw no gyft agayne at the geuers head, For better is halfe a lofe than no bread.
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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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A woman hath nyne lyues like a cat.
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Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
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The tide tarrieth no man.
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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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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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When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
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The wise man sayth, store is no sore.
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Than farewell riches, the fat is in the fire, And neuer shall I to like riches aspire.
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I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.
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Proue thy fréende er thou haue néede, but in déede A fréende is neuer knoen tyll a man haue néede.
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The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.
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Who is so deafe or so blinde as is heeThat wilfully will neither heare nor see?
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The wrong sow by th' eare.
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Might have gone further and have fared worse.
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And ones their hastie heate a littell controlde, Than perceiue they well, hotte love soone colde. And whan hasty witlesse mirth is mated weele, Good to be mery and wise, they thinke and feele.
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Ka me, ka the, one good tourne askth an other.