John Heywood Quotes
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Two heddis are better then one.
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She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.
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Reckeners without their host must recken twice.
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Cut my cote after my cloth.
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I know on which side my bread is buttred.
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All thing is the woorse for the wearing.
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New brome swepth cleene.
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Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.
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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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This hitteth the nayle on the hed.
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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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So many heads so many wits.
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Burnt child fire dredth.
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To hold with the hare and run with the hound.
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You stand in your owne light.
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A woman hath nine lives like a cat.
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No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
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Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.
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Yes yes (quoth she) for all those wyse woordis vttred, I know on which syde my bread is buttred. But there will no butter cleaue on my breade. And on my bread any butter to be spreade. Euery promise that thou therin dost vtter, Is as sure as it were sealed with butter.
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All is fish that comth to net.