Quotes from Proverbs — John Heywood
1497–1580 England
133 quotes
The nere to the churche, the ferther from God.
Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat.
Prove your friend ere you have need, but in deed
A friend is never known till a man have need.
Ye set circumquaques to make me beleue
Or thinke, that the moone is made of gréene chéese.
Pryde will have a fall;
For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.
Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.
She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.
Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.
Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me.
The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.
Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.
The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.
Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.
While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.
It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.
The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Heywood (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.