John Heywood Quotes
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Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe, With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
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Love me litle, love me long.
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The mo the merier, we all daie here and sée Ye, but the fewer the better fare (said hée)
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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
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All is not Gospell that thou doest speake.
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One swallow maketh not summer.
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He that will not whan he may, Whan he would, he shall haue nay.
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This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.
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... Better is to boow then breake. It hurteth not the tounge to geue fayre wurdis. The rough net is not the best catcher of Burdis. Sense ye can nought wyn, if ye can not please, Best is to suffre: For of sufferance comth ease.
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More frayd then hurt.
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Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away.
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Out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne.
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We both be at our wittes end.
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A heare of the dog that bote vs last night.
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Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke, Yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in, Not for the poke, but the pyg good chepe to wyn.
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Yee have many strings to your bowe.
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It is a deere collopThat is cut out of th' owne flesh.
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A short horse is soone currid.
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Rome was not built in one daie (quoth he) and yet stood Till it was finist, as some say, full faire.
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A peny for your thought.