“The more the merrier.”
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“It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.”
“Children and fooles cannot lye.”
“Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood
“Burnt child fire dredth.”
“Prove your friend ere you have need, but in deed
A friend is never known till a man have need.”
“Rome was not built in one day.”
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“Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong.”
Source: Works
“A day after the faire.”
“Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.”
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“Love me litle, love me long.”
“Time trieth troth in every doubt.”
Source: The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the
“All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.”
“Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.”
Source: A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht
“Happy man, happy dole.”
Source: The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations
“A cat may looke on a King.”
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“When the iron is hot, strike.”
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“Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.”
Source: The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the
“And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.”
Source: The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the
“Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.”
“The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.”
Source: The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A. D. 1562).
“This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.”
Source: The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A. D. 1562).
“Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.”
Source: The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the
“It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling”
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“There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.”
“She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.”
“Of a good beginning cometh a good end.”
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“One good turne asketh another.”
Source: The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the
“Good to be merie and wise.”
Source: The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the
“An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.”
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“It hurts not the tongue to give faire words.”
“Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.”
“A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!”
“Beggars should be no choosers.”
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“No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.”
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“And death makes equal the high and low.”
“But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!”
Source: Two Tudor
“Better is half a loaf than no bread.”
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“I know on which side my bread is buttered.”
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“Hunger makes hard beans sweet.”
Source: A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht
“A good wife maketh a good husband.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“Make hay while the sun shines.”
Source: A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht
“God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.”
“A cat may look at a king.”
“None so blind as those who won't see.”
“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.”
“Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.”
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