John Heywood Quotes

Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.

A fooles bolt is soone shot.

The happy man's without a shirt.

Better to give then to take.

One swallow maketh not summer.

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

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

Little pitchers have big ears.

Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong.

A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng.

Small pitchers have wyde eares.

To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.

An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.

One good turne asketh another.

Good to be merie and wise.

Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.

Of a good beginning cometh a good end.

Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.

This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.

Happy man, happy dole.

A short horse is soone currid.

Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.

When all candles are out, all cats are grey, All things are then of one color, as who say. And this proverb faith, for quenching hot desire, Foul water as soon as faire, will quench hot fire.

Might have gone further and have fared worse.

A day after the faire.

Time trieth troth in every doubt.

He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth.

Thrée maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away.

There is no fool to the old fool.

Three may keep counsel, if two be away.

A good wife maketh a good husband.

Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.

It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.

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.

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.

Nought venture nought have.

A cat may looke on a King.

But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!

She is neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring.

All is well that ends well.

The more haste the less speed.

Follow pleasure and then will pleasure flee Flee pleasure and pleasure will follow thee.

Love me love my dog.

Every man as he loveth quoth the good man when he kissed the cow.

An ill wind that bloweth no man good - The blower of which blast is she.

A hard beginning makes a good ending.