John Heywood Quotes

Ye set circumquaques to make me beleue Or thinke, that the moone is made of gréene chéese.

The nere to the churche, the ferther from God.

... Better is to boow then breake. It hurteth not the tounge to geue fayre wurdis. The rough net is not the best catcher of Burdis. Sense ye can nought wyn, if ye can not please, Best is to suffre: For of sufferance comth ease.

The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.

Nought venter nought have.

Ill weede growth fast.

Set the cart before the horse.

Children and fooles cannot lye.

Children and fooles can not ly.

Beware of, Had I wist.

A day after the faire.

You stand in your owne light.

Much water goeth by the mill
That the miller knoweth not of.

She speaketh as she would créepe into your bosome. And when the meale mouth hath woon the bottome of your stomake, than will the pickthanke it tell To your most enmies, you to bye and fell. To tell tales out of schoole, that is hir great lust. Looke what she knowth, blab it wist, out it must.

Many hands make light warke.