John Heywood

Small pitchers have wyde eares.

— John Heywood

Nought venture nought have.

— John Heywood

Children and fooles cannot lye.

— John Heywood

Better is to bow than break.

— John Heywood

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

— John Heywood

The moon is made of a green cheese.

— John Heywood

Rome was not built in one day.

— John Heywood

There is no fool to the old fool.

— John Heywood

God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.

— John Heywood

While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.

— John Heywood

It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.

— John Heywood

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

— John Heywood

But in deede, A friend is never knowne till a man have neede.

— John Heywood

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

— John Heywood

It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.

— John Heywood

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

— 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…

— John Heywood

Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.

— John Heywood

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

— John Heywood

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

— John Heywood

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

— John Heywood

Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke,Yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in,Not for…

— John Heywood

When the sunne shineth, make hay.

— John Heywood

The more haste, the less speed.

— John Heywood

Happy man, happy dole.

— John Heywood

Many handis make light warke.

— John Heywood

When the iron is hot, strike.

— John Heywood

Don't put the cart before the horse.

— John Heywood

A good wife maketh a good husband.

— John Heywood

A fooles bolt is soone shot.

— John Heywood

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

— John Heywood

Ill wéede growth fast.

— John Heywood

Half a loaf is better than none.

— John Heywood

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

— John Heywood

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

— John Heywood

Love me litle, love me long. 1546

— John Heywood

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

— John Heywood

A cat may looke on a King.

— John Heywood

Of a good beginning cometh a good end.

— John Heywood

One good turne asketh another.

— John Heywood