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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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• Put your toong in your purse.

  John Heywood

  Purses

  John Heywood, Frederick William Fairholt (1846). “A Dialogue on Wit and Folly”, p.31

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• Prove your friend ere you have need, but in deed
  A friend is never known till a man have need.

  John Heywood

  Friendship, Men

  "Proverbs". Part I, chapter 11, 1546.

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• Children and fooles cannot lye.

  John Heywood

  Children

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.

  John Heywood

  Ease, World, Mines

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• The moon is made of a green cheese.

  John Heywood

  Moon, Green, Cheese

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.412

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• The tide tarrieth no man.

  John Heywood

  Men, Tides

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.449

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• No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

  John Heywood

  Men, Gold, Made

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.366

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• The grey mare is the better horse.

  John Heywood

  Horse, Grey, Mares

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.391

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• Better is to bow than break.

  John Heywood

  Bows, Prudence

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

  John Heywood

  Birthday, Ice Cream, Cake

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.338

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• Tell tales out of school.

  John Heywood

  School, Gossip, Tales

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.446

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• One swallow never makes a summer.

  John Heywood

  Summer, Nature

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• It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.

  John Heywood

  Nests

  John Heywood (1867). “The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562): Reprinted from the Original (1562) Edition, and Collated with the Second (1566) Edition; with an Appendix of Variations”, p.58

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• What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

  John Heywood

  Devil, Belly

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• She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.

  John Heywood

  Flesh, Red, Fishes

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• Went in at the one ear and out at the other.

  John Heywood

  Ears, Hearing

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• Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.

  John Heywood

  Men, May

  John Heywood, Julian Sharman (1972). “The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the "Proverbes" of that Author Printed 1546”

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• I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.

  John Heywood

  Ends, Fingers

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.367

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• The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

  John Heywood

  Men, Wisest Man, Wisest

  John Heywood (1867). “The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A. D. 1562).”, p.54

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• It is better to be
  An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.

  John Heywood

  Men, Beans, Old Man

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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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.

  John Heywood

  Weed, Spring, Eye

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• A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

  John Heywood

  Care, Woe, Fruit

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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.

  John Heywood

  Death, World, Care

  "Be Merry Friends". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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