To give importance to trifling matters.
JOHN HEYWOODLet 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.
More John Heywood Quotes
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A cat may looke on a King.
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Many handis make light warke.
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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.
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When the iron is hot, strike.
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Nought venture, nought have. [Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]
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This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.
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Feed by measure, and defy the physician.
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The more the merrier.
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When all candles are out, all cats are grey, All things are then of one color, as who say. And this proverb faith, for quenching hot desire, Foul water as soon as faire, will quench hot fire.
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All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content’s a kingdom, and I wear that crown.
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Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
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It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling
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Make hay while the sun shines.
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Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
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He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay.
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