John Heywood Quotes
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Enough is as good as a feast.
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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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While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.
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For whan I gaue you an ynche, ye tooke an ell.
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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
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By hooke or crooke.
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Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.
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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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A heare of the dog that bote vs last night.
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More frayd then hurt.
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A short horse is soone currid.
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Out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne.
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It is a deere collopThat is cut out of th' owne flesh.
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Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away.
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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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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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We both be at our wittes end.
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A peny for your thought.