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.
JOHN HEYWOODThis wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.
More John Heywood Quotes
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Make hay while the sun shines.
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It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.
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A cat may looke on a King.
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Every dog has its day.
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Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
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Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.
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Feed by measure, and defy the physician.
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Many handis make light warke.
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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.
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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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It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling
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Thrée maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away.
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
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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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Nought venture, nought have. [Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]
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