John Heywood Quotes

Yes yes (quoth she) for all those wyse woordis vttred, I know on which syde my bread is buttred. But there will no butter cleaue on my breade. And on my bread any butter to be spreade. Euery promise that thou therin dost vtter, Is as sure as it were sealed with butter.

A man maie well bring a horse to the water, but he can not make him drinke without he will.

Throw no gyft agayne at the geuers head, For better is halfe a lofe than no bread.

Ill weede growth fast.

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.

I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A haire of the dog that bit us last night.

Nought venter nought have.

Ka me, ka the, one good tourne askth an other.

A woman hath nine lives like a cat.

He must needes goe whom the devill doth drive.

It is a deere collop
That is cut out of th' owne flesh.

And while I at length debate and beate the bushe, There shall steppe in other men, and catche the burdes, And by long time lost in many vayne wurdes.

And ones their hastie heate a littell controlde, Than perceiue they well, hotte love soone colde. And whan hasty witlesse mirth is mated weele, Good to be mery and wise, they thinke and feele.

Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away.