John Heywood Quotes
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It is better to beAn old man's derling than a yong man's werling.
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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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Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
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A woman hath nyne lyues like a cat.
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It had need to beeA wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.
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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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Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
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The tide tarrieth no man.
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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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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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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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Than farewell riches, the fat is in the fire, And neuer shall I to like riches aspire.
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Set the cart before the horse.
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Lyke a pyckpurs pilgrim, ye prie and ye proule At rouers, to rob Peter and paie Poule.
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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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The wrong sow by th' eare.
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Might have gone further and have fared worse.