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Men Quotes by John Heywood
- The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
- A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.
- Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.
- What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a nettle green (as…
- But in deede, A friend is never knowne till a man have neede.
- Happy man, happy dole.
- Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.
- And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.
- Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
- The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.
- An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.
- No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.
- Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.
- It takes nine tailors to make a man.
- The happy man's without a shirt.
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