John Heywood Quotes
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All is not Gospell that thou doest speake.
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Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe, With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
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By hooke or crooke.
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To hold with the hare and run with the hound.
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God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat.
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Nought venter nought have.
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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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Beware of, Had I wist.
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There is no fire without some smoke.
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A short horse is soone currid.
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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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While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.
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You stand in your owne light.
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Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.
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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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Though chaunge be no robbry.
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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
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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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Love me litle, love me long.
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An yll wynde that blowth no man to good.
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A heare of the dog that bote vs last night.
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To th' end of a shot and beginning of a fray.
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Rome was not built in one daie (quoth he) and yet stood Till it was finist, as some say, full faire.
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Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste, Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.