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It is better to be An olde mans derlyng, than a yong mans werlyng.
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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
John Heywood
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Two heddis are better then one.
John Heywood -
Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
John Heywood -
Children and fooles can not ly.
John Heywood -
Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.
John Heywood -
... Be they wynners or loosers, … beggers should be no choosers.
John Heywood -
Set all at sixe and seven.
John Heywood
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The wrong sow by th' eare.
John Heywood -
The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.
John Heywood -
This hitteth the nayle on the hed.
John Heywood -
Who is so deafe or so blinde as is heeThat wilfully will neither heare nor see?
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Rule the rost.
John Heywood -
She frieth in her owne grease.
John Heywood
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All is fish that comth to net.
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Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
John Heywood -
While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.
John Heywood -
Looke or ye leape.
John Heywood -
I know on which side my bread is buttred.
John Heywood -
No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
John Heywood
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Whan the sunne shinth make hay, whiche is to say, Take time whan time comth, lest time steale away.
John Heywood -
Burnt child fire dredth.
John Heywood -
Thrée maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away.
John Heywood -
Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste, Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.
John Heywood