John Heywood Quotes
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All is not Gospell that thou doest speake.
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Yee have many strings to your bowe.
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Out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne.
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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
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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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Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away.
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We both be at our wittes end.
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This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.
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More frayd then hurt.
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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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... 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 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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A short horse is soone currid.
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Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.
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It is a deere collopThat is cut out of th' owne flesh.
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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.