John Heywood Quotes
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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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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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Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.
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Beware of, Had I wist.
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The grey mare is the better horse.
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Ill weede growth fast.
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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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All is fish that comth to net.
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Nought venter nought have.
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Though chaunge be no robbry.
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What man, loue me, loue me dog.
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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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Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe, With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
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Beggars should be no choosers.
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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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And also I shall to reueng former hurtis, Hold their noses to grinstone, and syt on theyr skurtis.
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Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.
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The nere to the churche, the ferther from God.
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Love me litle, love me long.
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Children and fooles cannot lye.