John Heywood Quotes

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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.

  John Heywood

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.

  John Heywood

  Life Changing, Ifs

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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.

  John Heywood

  People, Blind, Knows

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• I know on which side my bread is buttered.

  John Heywood

  Food, Bread, Sides

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.86

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• Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

  John Heywood

  Inspirational, Hope, Heart

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.461

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• Hit the nail on the head.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Latin

  John Heywood (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs”, Berkeley : University of California Press

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• Beggars should be no choosers.

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  Should, Begging, Beggar

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.170

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• Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

  John Heywood

  Music, Nature, Silence

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• Rome was not built in one day.

  John Heywood

  Rome, Progress, One Day

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.223

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• A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.

  John Heywood

  Horse, Men, Water

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.33

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• There is no fyre without some smoke.

  John Heywood

  Smoke

  John Heywood, Spenser Society (1867). “Publications of the Spenser Society”, p.57

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• For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell.

  John Heywood

  Ells, Inches

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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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.

  John Heywood

  Happiness, Laughter, Loss

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.

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• To give importance to trifling matters.

  John Heywood

  Giving, Matter, Importance

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• None so blind as those who won't see.

  John Heywood

  Vision, Blind, American Gods

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• A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.328

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• Don't put the cart before the horse.

  John Heywood

  Patience, Horse, Carts

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• And death makes equal the high and low.

  John Heywood

  Death, Woe, Lows

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.

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• It hurts not the tongue to give faire words.

  John Heywood

  Giving

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• When the iron is hot, strike.

  John Heywood

  Opportunity, Iron, Hot

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.395

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• Better to be happy than wise.

  John Heywood

  Happiness, Wise

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• When the sunne shineth, make hay.

  John Heywood

  Hay

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• Cut your coat according to your cloth.

  John Heywood

  Humility, Cutting, Coats

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

  John Heywood

  Cat, Grey, Candle

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.13

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• All things on earth thus change, some up, some down;
  Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

  John Heywood

  Contentment, Crowns, Earth

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