John Heywood Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

47 Famous Quotes by John Heywood
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“Went in at the one eare and out at the other.”
Hearing Quotes
Source: Proverbs (pt. II, ch. IX)
“I pray thee let me and my fellow have A hair of the dog that bit us last night.”
Hair Quotes
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI, l.424)
“Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.”
Pleasure Quotes
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. X)
“What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?”
Idleness Quotes
Source: Idleness
“At our wittes end.”
Wit Quotes
Source: pt. I, ch. VIII
“Tell tales out of school.”
Gossip Quotes
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. X)
“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.”
Gossip Quotes
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. X)
“Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.”
Birds Quotes
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
“God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.”
Eating Quotes
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IV)
“An ill wind that bloweth no man good-- The blower of which blast is she.”
Wind Quotes
Source: Idleness (st. 5)
“Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.”
Luck Quotes
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX)
“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
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX)
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
Luck Quotes
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX)
“This wonder lasted nine daies.”
Wonders Quotes
Source: Proverbs (pt. II, ch. I)
“When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.)”
Devil Quotes
Source: Johan the Husband--Proverbs (ch. VII)
“What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.”
Devil Quotes
Source: Johan the Husband--Proverbs (ch. VII)
“When all candles be out, all cats be gray.”
Cats Quotes
“A hard beginning maketh a good ending.”
Beginnings Quotes
“Many hands make light work.”
Inspirational Quotes
“Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"This is commonly misquotes as "You can't have you're cake and eat it, too. - John Heywood's Proverbs, 1546.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes
“Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.”
Men and women Quotes
“The neer to the church, the further from God.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes