Quotes
Quotes - Heywood
Love me, love my dog.
An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.
For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell.
Would yee both eat your cake and have your cake?
Every man for himselfe and God for us all.
Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.
This hitteth the naile on the hed.
Enough is as good as a feast.
The world's a theatre, the earth a stage
Which God and Nature do with actors fill.
I hold he loves me best that calls me Tom.
Seven cities warred for Homer being dead,
Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.
Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.
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. - John Heywood's Proverbs, 1546.
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet.
When all candles be out, all cats be gray.
Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shroud his head.
Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.
When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.)
What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.
Tell tales out of school.
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
I pray thee let me and my fellow have A hair of the dog that bit us last night.
