47 Famous Quotes by John Heywood
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About John Heywood
John Heywood was an English writer known for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs. Although he is best known as a playwright, he was also active as a musician and composer, though no works survive.
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I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A hair of the dog that bit us last night.
Hair
Quotes, by John Heywood , Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI, l.424)
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Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee,
Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
Pleasure
Quotes, by John Heywood , Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. X)
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If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit
next to me.
Gossip
Quotes, by John Heywood , Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. X)
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An ill wind that bloweth no man good--
The blower of which blast is she.
Wind
Quotes, by John Heywood , Source: Idleness (st. 5)
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I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for
the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected
works of Francis Bacon.
Luck
Quotes, by John Heywood , Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX)
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Luck
Quotes, by John Heywood , Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX)
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When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil
drives.)
Devil
Quotes, by John Heywood , Source: Johan the Husband--Proverbs (ch. VII)
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What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
Devil
Quotes, by John Heywood , Source: Johan the Husband--Proverbs (ch. VII)
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