John Heywood Quotes
-
God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat.
-
The grey mare is the better horse.
-
... Better is to boow then breake. It hurteth not the tounge to geue fayre wurdis. The rough net is not the best catcher of Burdis. Sense ye can nought wyn, if ye can not please, Best is to suffre: For of sufferance comth ease.
-
Small pitchers have wyde eares.
-
Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.
-
There is no fyre without some smoke.
-
Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe, With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
-
A man may well bring a horse to the water,But he cannot make him drinke without he will.
-
Ye set circumquaques to make me beleue Or thinke, that the moone is made of gréene chéese.
-
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.
-
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.
-
To th' end of a shot and beginning of a fray.
-
The nere to the churche, the ferther from God.
-
While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.
-
All is not Gospell that thou doest speake.
-
He that will not whan he may, Whan he would, he shall haue nay.
-
Children and fooles cannot lye.
-
Have yee him on the hip.
-
And also I shall to reueng former hurtis, Hold their noses to grinstone, and syt on theyr skurtis.
-
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.