John Heywood Quotes
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Set the cart before the horse.
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When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.
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Children and fooles can not ly.
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To robbe Peter and pay Poule.
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Like will to like.
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Rule the rost.
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The still sowe eats up all the draffe.
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Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
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Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.
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It is better to be An olde mans derlyng, than a yong mans werlyng.
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The more hast the lesse speede.
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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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The moe the merrier.
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Ill wéede growth fast.
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Many hands make light work.
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When the iron is hot, strike.
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Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.
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I know on which side my bread is buttred.
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Two heddis are better then one.
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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.