John Heywood Quotes
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If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
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There is no fire without some smoke.
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To hold with the hare and run with the hound.
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By hooke or crooke.
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Beware of, Had I wist.
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Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe, With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
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God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat.
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While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.
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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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A man may well bring a horse to the water,But he cannot make him drinke without he will.
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Who hopeth in Gods helpe, his helpe can not starte: Nothing is impossible to a willyng hart, And will maie wyn my herte, herein to consent, To take all thinges as it cometh, and be content.
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A short horse is soone currid.
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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
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The mo the merier, we all daie here and sée Ye, but the fewer the better fare (said hée)
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Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste, Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.
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One good turne asketh another.
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Love me litle, love me long.
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For whan I gaue you an ynche, ye tooke an ell.
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To th' end of a shot and beginning of a fray.
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The nere to the churche, the ferther from God.