John Heywood Quotes

It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.

Hunger makes hard beans sweet.

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

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.

One swallow never makes a summer.

Three may keep counsel, if two be away.

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

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.

Make hay while the sun shines.

When the sunne shineth, make hay.

The more the merrier.

It's an ill wind that blows no good.

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

A day after the faire.

Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.

Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

One good turne asketh another.

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

Hit the nail on the head.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

All's well that ends well.

Of a good beginning cometh a good end.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a nettle green (as th'emeraude) spread in a bed of roses like the ruby red. Between which two colors he thought, but his eye, The green nettle did the red rose beautify. "How be it," he asked the nettle, "what thing Made him so pert? So nigh the Rose to Spring.

None so blind as those who won't see.

Children and fools cannot lie.

It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

Feed by measure, and defy the physician.

It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling

Children and fooles cannot lye.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

A cat may looke on a King.

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

When the sun shineth, make hay.

Every dog has its day.

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

The happy man's without a shirt.

Rome was not built in one day.

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

Put your toong in your purse.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Look before you leap.

A woman hath nine lives like a cat.

Love me litle, love me long.

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.