Quotes from Proverbs — John Heywood
1497–1580 England
133 quotes
A short horse is soone currid.
Beggars should be no choosers.
All is fish that comth to net.
She frieth in her owne grease.
One swallow maketh not summer.
Set the cart before the horse.
Lyke a pyckpurs pilgrim, ye prie and ye proule
At rouers, to rob Peter and paie Poule.
I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A haire of the dog that bit us last night.
... Be they wynners or loosers,
… beggers should be no choosers.
A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng.
Rome was not built in one daie (quoth he) and yet stood
Till it was finist, as some say, full faire.
There is no fyre without some smoke.
Ye can not sée the wood for trées.
This hitteth the nayle on the hed.
The more hast the lesse speede.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Heywood (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.