John Heywood Quotes
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All is not Gospell that thou doest speake.
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Children and fooles cannot lye.
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This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.
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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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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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Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away.
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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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He that will not whan he may, Whan he would, he shall haue nay.
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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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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
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By hooke or crooke.
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Out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne.
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More frayd then hurt.
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A short horse is soone currid.
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Better to give then to take.
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One swallow maketh not summer.
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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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Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.
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She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.