John Heywood Quotes

For whan I gaue you an ynche, ye tooke an ell.

This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.

Set the cart before the hors.

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

Out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne.

Ye can not sée the wood for trées.

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.

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.

No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.

Set the cart before the horse.

A woman hath nyne lyues like a cat.

Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away.

He that will not whan he may, Whan he would, he shall haue nay.

Reckeners without their host must recken twice.

To robbe Peter and pay Poule.