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Quotes from John Heywood

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
~ John Heywood
No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
~ 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
The tide tarrieth no man.
~ John Heywood
Prove your friend ere you have need, but in deed A friend is never known till a man have need.
~ John Heywood
Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.
~ John Heywood
The happy man's without a shirt.
~ John Heywood
Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.
~ John Heywood
An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.
~ John Heywood
Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.
~ John Heywood
Happy man, happy dole.
~ John Heywood
Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.
~ John Heywood
It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.
~ John Heywood
Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
~ John Heywood
The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.
~ John Heywood
And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.
~ John Heywood
Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
~ John Heywood
One swallow never makes a summer.
~ John Heywood
Don't put the cart before the horse.
~ John Heywood
The more haste the less speed.
~ John Heywood
God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.
~ John Heywood
A good wife maketh a good husband.
~ John Heywood
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
~ John Heywood
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
~ John Heywood