Top 100 John Heywood Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Rome was not built in one day.”

— John Heywood

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2. “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

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3. “Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.”

— John Heywood

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4. “Every dog has its day.”

— John Heywood

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5. “Make hay while the sun shines.”

— John Heywood

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6. “The more haste, the less speed.”

— John Heywood

7. “Beggars can’t be choosers.”

— John Heywood

8. “Look before you leap.”

— John Heywood

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9. “Cut your coat according to your cloth.”

— John Heywood

10. “All’s well that ends well.”

— John Heywood

11. “A hard beginning maketh a good ending.”

— John Heywood

12. “None so blind as those who won’t see.”

— John Heywood

13. “Half a loaf is better than none.”

— John Heywood

14. “Don’t put the cart before the horse.”

— John Heywood

15. “Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it burned in one.”

— John Heywood

16. “If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.”

— John Heywood

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

— John Heywood

18. “The nearer to the church, the further from God.”

— John Heywood

19. “Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.”

— John Heywood

20. “It’s no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.”

— John Heywood

21. “It’s an ill wind that blows no good.”

— John Heywood

22. “Hunger makes hard beans sweet.”

— John Heywood

23. “Better is to bow than breake.”

— John Heywood

24. “Feed by measure, and defy the physician.”

— John Heywood

25. “I know on which side my bread is buttered.”

— John Heywood

26. “When the devil drives, needs must.”

— John Heywood

27. “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

28. “Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.”

— John Heywood

29. “When all candles be out, all cats be grey.”

— John Heywood

30. “Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?”

— John Heywood

31. “Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.”

— John Heywood

32. “The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.”

— John Heywood

33. “A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!”

— John Heywood

34. “Who waiteth for dead man’s shoes will go long barefoot.”

— John Heywood

35. “A woman hath nine lives like a cat.”

— John Heywood

36. “A cat may look at a king.”

— John Heywood

37. “It takes nine tailors to make a man.”

— John Heywood

38. “Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.”

— John Heywood

39. “And death makes equal the high and low.”

— John Heywood

40. “No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.”

— John Heywood

41. “It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling.”

— John Heywood

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42. “There is no fool to the old fool.”

— John Heywood

43. “Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.”

— John Heywood

44. “For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell.”

— John Heywood

45. “There is no fyre without some smoke.”

— John Heywood

46. “All is fish that comth to net.”

— John Heywood

47. “One swallow never makes a summer.”

— John Heywood

48. “It hurteth not the toung to give faire words.”

— John Heywood

49. “Many handis make light warke.”

— John Heywood

50. “The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.”

— John Heywood