Quotes by John Heywood - Page 3

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
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Men
Dead Man
Long
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This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.
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Lasts
Nine
Wonder
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Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.
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Men
May
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No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
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Men
Horse
Mouths
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When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.
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She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
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Fishes
Flesh
Red
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To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.
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Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.
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Ease
Mines
World
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Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.
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The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.
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Cat
Fishes
Wet
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It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.
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Bones
Flesh
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Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.
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Wisdom
Wise
Men
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Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.
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Evil
Long
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It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.
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Barns
Doors
Horse
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What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
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Belly
Devil
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Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.
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Goeth
Water
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All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.
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Garlands
Green
Tree
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He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay.
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Nought venture, nought have. [Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]
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Risk
Venture
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Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong.
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Lasts
Long
Rings
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It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.
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Men
Beans
Old Man
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A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.
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Men
Horse
Water
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It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.
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Care
Cat
Needs
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Pryde will have a fall;For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.
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Fall
Goeth
Shame
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Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
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Agree
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What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?
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Heart
Thinking
Tongue
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Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
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Journey
Knowledge
Blind
Deaf
Obstinacy
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I pray thee let me and my fellow have a haire of the dog that bit us last night.
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Food
Beer
Dog
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Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?
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Clothes
Suits
Tailors
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Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
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Shoes
Shops
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Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.
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Pleasure
Refrain
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Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
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Pleasure
Thee
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Prove your friend ere you have need, but in deed A friend is never known till a man have need.
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Friendship
Men
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Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste,Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.
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Men
Haste
Waste
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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.
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All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.
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Contentment
Crowns
Earth
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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
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Happiness
Dirt
Laughter
Loss
Wealth
Assert
Shirt
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But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
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Clerks
Forget
Priests
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And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.
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Men
Debate
Length
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Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? This is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're cake and eat it, too.
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Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.
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Comfort
Sorrow
Storm
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There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.
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Blind
Knows
People
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He makes a beggar first that first relieves him; Not us'rers make more beggars where they live Than charitable men that use to give.
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Men
Giving
Use
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Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke,Yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in,Not for the poke, but the pyg good chepe to wyn.
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Bye
Poke
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Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.
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Death
Care
World
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When all candles are out, all cats are grey, All things are then of one color, as who say. And this proverb faith, for quenching hot desire, Foul water as soon as faire, will quench hot fire.
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Cat
Hot
Water
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If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
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Experience
Happiness
Happy
Inspirational
Motivational
Attitude
Adverse
Circumstances
Force
Latent
Vigorous
Within
Call
Develops
Experiences
However
Seem
Troubles
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What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a nettle green (as th'emeraude) spread in a bed of roses like the ruby red. Between which two colors he thought, but his eye, The green nettle did the red rose beautify. "How be it," he asked the nettle, "what thing Made him so pert? So nigh the Rose to Spring.
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Eye
Spring
Weed
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