John Heywood Quotes

“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

“Look before you leap.”

— John Heywood

“Pryde will have a fall;For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.”

— John Heywood

“And death makes equal the high and low.”

— John Heywood

“A cat may look at a king.”

— John Heywood

“Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.”

— John Heywood

When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.

— John Heywood

“Make hay while the sun shines.”

— John Heywood

“A good wife maketh a good husband.”

— John Heywood

“Hunger makes hard beans sweet.”

— John Heywood

“Three may keep counsel, if two be away.”

— John Heywood

“Good to be merie and wise.”

— John Heywood

“Better is half a loaf than no bread.”

— John Heywood

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

— John Heywood

“He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth.”

— John Heywood

“Better to give then to take.”

— John Heywood

“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

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

— John Heywood

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

— John Heywood

“One swallow maketh not summer.”

— John Heywood

The tide tarrieth no man.

— John Heywood

“Half a loaf is better than none.”

— John Heywood

“There is no fool to the old fool.”

— John Heywood

“Hit the nail on the head.”

— John Heywood

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

— John Heywood

“Every dog has its day.”

— John Heywood

“The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.”

— John Heywood

“One good turn asketh another.”

— John Heywood

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

— John Heywood

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

— John Heywood

“Happy man, happy dole.”

— John Heywood

“Love me litle, love me long. 1546”

— John Heywood

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

— John Heywood

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

— John Heywood

This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.

— John Heywood

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

— John Heywood

The happy man's without a shirt.

— John Heywood

None so blind as those who won't see.

— John Heywood

“No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.”

— John Heywood

“A short horse is soone currid.”

— John Heywood

“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

“It takes nine tailors to make a man.”

— John Heywood

“It is good the have a hatch before the durre.”

— John Heywood

“To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.”

— John Heywood

“What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?”

— John Heywood

I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.

— John Heywood

“No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.”

— John Heywood

“The moon is made of a green cheese.”

— John Heywood

A fooles bolt is soone shot.

— John Heywood

“Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?”

— John Heywood