John Heywood Quotes
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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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For whan I gaue you an ynche, ye tooke an ell.
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So many heads so many wits.
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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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Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.
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Enough is as good as a feast.
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An yll wynde that blowth no man to good.
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Small pitchers have wyde eares.
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While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.
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Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.
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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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And also I shall to reueng former hurtis, Hold their noses to grinstone, and syt on theyr skurtis.
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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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Ill weede growth fast.
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All is fish that comth to net.
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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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Beware of, Had I wist.
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Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.
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Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste, Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.