John Heywood Quotes
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Small pitchers have wyde eares.
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While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.
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By hooke or crooke.
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Beware of, Had I wist.
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There is no fire without some smoke.
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God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat.
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One good turne asketh another.
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Nought venter nought have.
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To hold with the hare and run with the hound.
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All is not Gospell that thou doest speake.
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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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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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The mo the merier, we all daie here and sée Ye, but the fewer the better fare (said hée)
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The nere to the churche, the ferther from God.
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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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You stand in your owne light.
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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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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.