John Heywood Quotes

1497–1580 England

John Heywood (1497–1580) was an English writer known for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs. He fled England for the Low Countries to avoid persecution as a Catholic.

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Also known as: Heywood, John

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Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.
Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.

Proverbs (1546)

A heare of the dog that bote vs last night.

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Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

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The still sowe eats up all the draffe.

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Better is halfe a lofe than no bread.

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The moone is made of a greene cheese.

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There is no fire without some smoke.

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A woman hath nine lives like a cat.

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The grey mare is the better horse.

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Children and fooles cannot lye.

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Small pitchers have wyde eares.

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A short horse is soone currid.

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Beggars should be no choosers.

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All is fish that comth to net.

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She frieth in her owne grease.

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One swallow maketh not summer.

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Set the cart before the horse.

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Time is tickell, and out of sight out of minde.
Than catche and holde while I may, fast binde fast finde.

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That muche is my bowe bent to shoote at these marks,
And kyll feare, when the sky falth we shall haue larks.

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Lyke a pyckpurs pilgrim, ye prie and ye proule
At rouers, to rob Peter and paie Poule.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Heywood (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.