Best 81 quotes of John Heywood on MyQuotes

A cat may look at a king.

A cat may looke on a King.

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

A good wife maketh a good husband.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

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

All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

And death makes equal the high and low.

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

Beggars can't be choosers.

A woman hath nine lives like a cat.

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

Better is half a loaf than no bread.

Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

Burnt child fire dredth.

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

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

Happy man, happy dole.

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.

Hit the nail on the head.

Hunger makes hard beans sweet.

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.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

Ill wéede growth fast.

I pray thee let me and my fellow have a haire of the dog that bit us last night.

It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.

It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.

It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling

It's an ill wind that blows no good.

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

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.

Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.

Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Look before you leap.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Many hands make light work.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

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

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

Nought venture nought have.

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

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

One swallow never makes a summer.

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

Rome was not built in one day.

Tell tales out of school.