John Heywood Quotes
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To th' end of a shot and beginning of a fray.
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While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.
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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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God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat.
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Reckeners without their host must recken twice.
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To robbe Peter and pay Poule.
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So many heads so many wits.
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Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.
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For whan I gaue you an ynche, ye tooke an ell.
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All is fish that comth to net.
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An yll wynde that blowth no man to good.
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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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Yee have many strings to your bowe.
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Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.
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Ill weede growth fast.
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Small pitchers have wyde eares.
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The nere to the churche, the ferther from God.
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The grey mare is the better horse.
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Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste, Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.