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