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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Children and fooles cannot lye.
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This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.
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We both be at our wittes end.
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By hooke or crooke.
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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 heare of the dog that bote vs last night.
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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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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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Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away.
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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
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Better to give then to take.
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The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.
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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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Be the day never so long,Evermore at last they ring to evensong.
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Out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne.
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Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.
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More frayd then hurt.