Quotes from Proverbs — John Heywood
1497–1580 England
133 quotes
Children learne to créepe er they can learne to go.
She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.
When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.
This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.
Reckeners without their host must recken twice.
He must needes goe whom the devill doth drive.
To hold with the hare and run with the hound.
Might have gone further and have fared worse.
It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.
To th' end of a shot and beginning of a fray.
While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.
Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?
All is not Gospell that thou doest speake.
Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away.
Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.
All thing is the woorse for the wearing.
Whan the sunne shinth make hay, whiche is to say,
Take time whan time comth, lest time steale away.
Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,
Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.
A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But he cannot make him drinke without he will.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Heywood (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.