John Heywood Quotes
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Reckeners without their host must recken twice.
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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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Ill wéede growth fast.
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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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Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.
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This hitteth the nayle on the hed.
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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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While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.
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So many heads so many wits.
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An yll wynde that blowth no man to good.
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The nere to the churche, the ferther from God.
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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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Ill weede growth fast.
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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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Small pitchers have wyde eares.
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Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.
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Beware of, Had I wist.
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The grey mare is the better horse.
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All is fish that comth to net.