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Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
John Heywood
2.
The more the merrier.
John Heywood
3.
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
4.
It takes nine tailors to make a man.
John Heywood
5.
Make hay while the sun shines.
John Heywood
6.
A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!
John Heywood
7.
All's well that ends well.
John Heywood
8.
Many hands make light work.
John Heywood
9.
It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.
John Heywood
10.
When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
John Heywood
11.
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
John Heywood
12.
Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
John Heywood
13.
What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
John Heywood
14.
If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.
John Heywood
15.
Beggars can't be choosers.
John Heywood
16.
Cut your coat according to your cloth.
John Heywood
17.
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
18.
Went in at the one ear and out at the other.
John Heywood
19.
All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.
John Heywood
20.
One good turn asketh another.
John Heywood
21.
The nearer to the church, the further from God.
John Heywood
22.
Hit the nail on the head.
John Heywood
23.
Rome was not built in one day.
John Heywood
24.
Tell tales out of school.
John Heywood
25.
The moon is made of a green cheese.
John Heywood
26.
Beggars should be no choosers.
John Heywood
27.
A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.
John Heywood
28.
None so blind as those who won't see.
John Heywood
29.
And death makes equal the high and low.
John Heywood
30.
Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.
John Heywood
31.
When the devil drives, needs must.
John Heywood
32.
She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
John Heywood
33.
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
John Heywood
34.
What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?
John Heywood
35.
No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.
John Heywood
36.
Better is to bow than break.
John Heywood
37.
To give importance to trifling matters.
John Heywood
38.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
John Heywood
39.
It hurts not the tongue to give faire words.
John Heywood
40.
It had need to bee
A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.
John Heywood
41.
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
42.
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
43.
Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
John Heywood
44.
He makes a beggar first that first relieves him;
Not us'rers make more beggars where they live
Than charitable men that use to give.
John Heywood
45.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
John Heywood
46.
A cat may look at a king.
John Heywood
47.
Better is half a loaf than no bread.
John Heywood
48.
No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
John Heywood
49.
So many heads so many wits.
John Heywood
50.
Look before you leap.
John Heywood
