John Heywood Quotes - Page 3

The tide tarrieth no man.

Children and fooles cannot lye.

So many heads so many wits.

And death makes equal the high and low.

The moon is made of a green cheese.

The grey mare is the better horse.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

Better is to bow than break.

Many handis make light warke.

One swallow never makes a summer.

Tell tales out of school.

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

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

To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.

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 th'emeraude) spread in a bed of roses like the ruby red. Between which two colors he thought, but his eye, The green nettle did the red rose beautify. "How be it," he asked the nettle, "what thing Made him so pert? So nigh the Rose to Spring.

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

Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.

Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.

Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.

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