John Heywood Quotes
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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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A cat may looke on a King.
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Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
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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 had need to beeA wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.
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A woman hath nyne lyues like a cat.
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Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?
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When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
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The tide tarrieth no man.
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Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
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The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.
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The wise man sayth, store is no sore.
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Who is so deafe or so blinde as is heeThat wilfully will neither heare nor see?
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I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.
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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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The wrong sow by th' eare.
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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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The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.
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When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.
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One good turne asketh another.