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Famous John Heywood Quotes
“It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.”
“Nought venture, nought have. [Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]”
“All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.”
“Put your toong in your purse.”
“He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth.”
“A hard beginning maketh a good ending.”
“Children and fools cannot lie.”
“Feed by measure, and defy the physician.”
“There is no fool to the old fool.”
“When the sun shineth, make hay.”
“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.”
“Better to be happy than wise.”
“Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?”
“I pray thee let me and my fellow have a haire of the dog that bit us last night.”
“Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.”
“Three may keep counsel, if two be away.”
“A woman hath nine lives like a cat.”
“The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.”
“Never look a gift horse in the mouth.”
“A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.”
“The grey mare is the better horse.”
“Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?”
“When all candles be out, all cats be grey.”
“One good turn asketh another.”
“The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.”
“The nearer to the church, the further from God.”