“Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.”
Source: The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations
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“What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?”
“Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.”
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“Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?”
“A short horse is soone currid.”
Source: The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the
“Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.”
Source: The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the
“The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.”
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“It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.”
Source: The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562): Reprinted from the Original (1562) Edition, and Collated with the Second (1566) Edition; with an Appendix of Variations
“It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.”
“A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng.”
Source: The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562): Reprinted from the Original (1562) Edition, and Collated with the Second (1566) Edition; with an Appendix of Variations
Source: The Proverbs and Epigrams
“Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?”
Source: The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562)
“There is no fyre without some smoke.”
Source: Publications of the Spenser Society
“All is fish that comth to net.”
Source: The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A. D. 1562).
“A fooles bolt is soone shot.”
Source: The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the
“Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.”
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“The moon is made of a green cheese.”
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“Thrée maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away.”
Source: The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562): Reprinted from the Original (1562) Edition, and Collated with the Second (1566) Edition; with an Appendix of Variations
“Many handis make light warke.”
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“Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.”
Source: The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562): Reprinted from the Original (1562) Edition, and Collated with the Second (1566) Edition; with an Appendix of Variations
“No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.”
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“I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.”
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“When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.”
Source: The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A. D. 1562).
“Pryde will have a fall;For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.”
“Small pitchers have wyde eares.”
Source: The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the
“It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.”
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“He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay.”
Source: The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A. D. 1562).
Source: The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562): Reprinted from the Original (1562) Edition, and Collated with the Second (1566) Edition; with an Appendix of Variations
“Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.”
Source: The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562): Reprinted from the Original (1562) Edition, and Collated with the Second (1566) Edition; with an Appendix of Variations
“One swallow maketh not summer.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
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“The more haste, the less speed.”
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“It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.”
“Cut your coat according to your cloth.”
Source: A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht