John Heywood Quotes
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Ye set circumquaques to make me beleue Or thinke, that the moone is made of gréene chéese.
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While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.
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Better is halfe a lofe than no bread.
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Two heddis are better then one.
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Nought venter nought have.
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Cut my cote after my cloth.
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Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
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She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.
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The still sowe eats up all the draffe.
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Rule the rost.
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Many hands make light work.
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Set the cart before the hors.
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It is better to be An olde mans derlyng, than a yong mans werlyng.
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To hold with the hare and run with the hound.
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And while I at length debate and beate the bushe, There shall steppe in other men, and catche the burdes, And by long time lost in many vayne wurdes.
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No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
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There is no fyre without some smoke.
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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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Set all at sixe and seven.
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A man may well bring a horse to the water,But he cannot make him drinke without he will.