John Heywood quotes

And death makes equal the high and low.
-- John Heywood

#Death #Lows #Equal

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
-- John Heywood

#Inspirational #Motivational #Happiness

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
-- John Heywood

#Inspirational #Heart #Impossible

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
-- John Heywood

#Nature #Woods

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
-- John Heywood

#Inspirational #Motivational #Business

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
-- John Heywood

#Birthday #Cake

When the devil drives, needs must.
-- John Heywood

#Devil #Needs

Make hay while the sun shines.
-- John Heywood

#Opportunity #Shining #Hay

When all candels be out, all cats be grey,All thingis are then of one colour, as who sey.And this prouerbe faith, for quenching hot desyre,Foul water as soone as fayre, will quenche hot fyre.
-- John Heywood

#Cat #Water #Hot

The wise man sayth, store is no sore.
-- John Heywood

#Wise #Wisdom #Men

A short horse is soone currid.
-- John Heywood

#Horse

Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.
-- John Heywood

#Proud

The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.
-- John Heywood

#Rolling #Stones #Rolling Stones

Might have gone further and have fared worse.
-- John Heywood

#Gone #Might

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.
-- John Heywood

#Nests

It is better to beAn old man's derling than a yong man's werling.
-- John Heywood

#Men #Beans #Old Man

A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng.
-- John Heywood

Ill wéede growth fast.
-- John Heywood

#Growth #Ill

Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
-- John Heywood

#Shoes #Shops

There is no fyre without some smoke.
-- John Heywood

The still sowe eats up all the draffe.
-- John Heywood

#Stills

Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?
-- John Heywood

#Clothes #Tailors #Suits

The happy man's without a shirt.
-- John Heywood

#Happiness #Men #Shirts

Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
-- John Heywood

#Knowledge #Blind #Deaf

God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.
-- John Heywood

#Meat #Mouths #Providence

A cat may look at a king.
-- John Heywood

#Kings #Cat #Looks

None so blind as those who won't see.
-- John Heywood

#Vision #Blind

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? This is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're cake and eat it, too.
-- John Heywood

#Cake

Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.
-- John Heywood

#Men #May #Force

Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
-- John Heywood

#Hands #Woods

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
-- John Heywood

#Devil #Belly

Tell tales out of school.
-- John Heywood

#School #Gossip #Tales

Went in at the one ear and out at the other.
-- John Heywood

#Ears #Hearing

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?
-- John Heywood

#Heart #Thinking #Tongue

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
-- John Heywood

#Pleasure #Thee

A good wife maketh a good husband.
-- John Heywood

#Marriage #Husband #Wife

Better is to bow than breake.
-- John Heywood

#Bows #Prudence

To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.
-- John Heywood

A fooles bolt is soone shot.
-- John Heywood

#Shots

Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.
-- John Heywood

#Water #Goeth

It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.
-- John Heywood

#Horse #Doors #Barns

Cut your coat according to your cloth.
-- John Heywood

#Humility #Cutting #Coats

One swallow never makes a summer.
-- John Heywood

#Summer #Nature

Don't put the cart before the horse.
-- John Heywood

#Patience #Horse #Carts

Half a loaf is better than none.
-- John Heywood

#Half

Beggars can't be choosers.
-- John Heywood

#Poverty #Beggar

All's well that ends well.
-- John Heywood

#Wisdom #Finishing #Ends

He makes a beggar first that first relieves him; Not us'rers make more beggars where they live Than charitable men that use to give.
-- John Heywood

#Men #Giving #Use

It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cat's care.
-- John Heywood

#Cat #Needs #Care

Nought venture, nought have. [Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]
-- John Heywood

#Risk #Venture

All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.
-- John Heywood

#Contentment #Crowns #Earth

Put your toong in your purse.
-- John Heywood

#Purses

He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth.
-- John Heywood

Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.
-- John Heywood

#Sorrow #Storm #Comfort

The more haste, the less speed.
-- John Heywood

#Patience #Haste #Speed

The tide tarrieth no man.
-- John Heywood

#Men #Tides

One swallow maketh not summer.
-- John Heywood

#Summer

The moon is made of a green cheese.
-- John Heywood

#Moon #Green #Cheese

So many heads so many wits.
-- John Heywood

#Wit

Thrée maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away.
-- John Heywood

#Two

Many handis make light warke.
-- John Heywood

#Light

Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.
-- John Heywood

#Men

No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
-- John Heywood

#Horse #Men #Mouths

I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.
-- John Heywood

#Ends #Fingers

When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.
-- John Heywood

Pryde will have a fall;For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.
-- John Heywood

#Fall #Shame #Goeth

Small pitchers have wyde eares.
-- John Heywood

#Pitcher

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.
-- John Heywood

#Flesh #Bones

He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay.
-- John Heywood

#May

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.
-- John Heywood

#Bye #Poke

Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.
-- John Heywood

#Men #Haste #Waste

All is fish that comth to net.
-- John Heywood

#Fishes

I know on which side my bread is buttered.
-- John Heywood

#Food #Bread #Sides