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Quotes - Heywood


Went in at the one eare and out at the other.

John Heywood

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

John Heywood

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

John Heywood

I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.

John Heywood

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

John Heywood

Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

John Heywood

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

John Heywood

By hooke or crooke.

John Heywood

A precious pair of brothers [i.e., rascals].

John Heywood

As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

John Heywood

To drink away sorrow.

John Heywood

To give importance to trifling matters.

John Heywood

To grow a philosopher's beard.

John Heywood

To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.

John Heywood

Better is to bow than breake.

John Heywood

It is good the have a hatch before the durre.

John Heywood

Yee have many strings to your bowe.

John Heywood

The neer to the church, the further from God.

John Heywood

Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting Quill Commandeth Mirth or Passion, was but Will.

Thomas Heywood

'Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?

John Heywood

It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.]

John Heywood

An ill wind that bloweth no man good-- The blower of which blast is she.

John Heywood

At our wittes end.

John Heywood

This wonder lasted nine daies.

John Heywood

Haste makes waste.

John Heywood

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