John Heywood Quotes
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Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
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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.
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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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... Be they wynners or loosers, … beggers should be no choosers.
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Rule the rost.
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The moe the merrier.
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Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.
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Two heddis are better then one.
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The still sowe eats up all the draffe.
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Children and fooles can not ly.
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It is better to be An olde mans derlyng, than a yong mans werlyng.
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All is fish that comth to net.
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Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
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So many heads so many wits.
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She frieth in her owne grease.
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Whan the sunne shinth make hay, whiche is to say, Take time whan time comth, lest time steale away.
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While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.
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Set all at sixe and seven.
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Many hands make light work.