Top 100 John Heywood Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “When the iron is hot, strike.”

— John Heywood

52. “But in deede, A friend is never knowne till a man have neede.”

— John Heywood

53. “Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.”

— John Heywood

54. “Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?”

— John Heywood

55. “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

56. “One good turne asketh another.”

— John Heywood

57. “The grey mare is the better horse.”

— John Heywood

58. “Three may keep counsel, if two be away.”

— John Heywood

59. “The moon is made of a green cheese.”

— John Heywood

60. “Hit the nail on the head.”

— John Heywood

61. “The still sowe eats up all the draffe.”

— John Heywood

62. “Happy man, happy dole.”

— John Heywood

63. “What is got over the devil’s back is spent under his belly.”

— John Heywood

64. “The happy man’s without a shirt.”

— John Heywood

65. “Time trieth troth in every doubt.”

— John Heywood

66. “Went in at the one ear and out at the other.”

— John Heywood

67. “The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man’s without a shirt.”

— John Heywood

68. “So many heads so many wits.”

— John Heywood

69. “The wise man sayth, store is no sore.”

— John Heywood

70. “God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.”

— John Heywood

71. “Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong.”

— John Heywood

72. “I pray thee let me and my fellow have a haire of the dog that bit us last night.”

— John Heywood

73. “Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.”

— John Heywood

74. “He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth.”

— John Heywood

75. “It is good the have a hatch before the durre.”

— John Heywood

76. “Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.”

— John Heywood

77. “Tell tales out of school.”

— John Heywood

78. “I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.”

— John Heywood

79. “To give importance to trifling matters.”

— John Heywood

80. “It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.”

— John Heywood

81. “What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?”

— John Heywood

82. “While the grass groweth the horse starveth.”

— John Heywood

83. “Love me litle, love me long. 1546.”

— John Heywood

84. “All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.”

— John Heywood

85. “Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.”

— John Heywood

86. “Burnt child fire dredth.”

— John Heywood

87. “Nought venture nought have.”

— John Heywood

88. “Put your toong in your purse.”

— John Heywood

89. “The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.”

— John Heywood

90. “It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.”

— John Heywood

91. “A fooles bolt is soone shot.”

— John Heywood

92. “Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.”

— John Heywood

93. “Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?”

— John Heywood

94. “She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.”

— John Heywood

95. “When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.”

— John Heywood

96. “Small pitchers have wyde eares.”

— John Heywood

97. “And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.”

— John Heywood

98. “When the sunne shineth, make hay.”

— John Heywood

99. “Children and fooles cannot lye.”

— John Heywood

100. “To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.”

— John Heywood