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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To th' end of a shot and beginning of a fray.
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Ill weede growth fast.
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Nought venter nought have.
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All is fish that comth to net.
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Better is halfe a lofe than no bread.
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The grey mare is the better horse.
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There is no fyre without some smoke.
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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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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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Though chaunge be no robbry.
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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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An yll wynde that blowth no man to good.
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What man, loue me, loue me dog.
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Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe, With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
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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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Beggars should be no choosers.
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Love me litle, love me long.
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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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All is not Gospell that thou doest speake.