Quotes by John Heywood

“She is neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring.”

“The more haste the less speed.”

“Follow pleasure and then will pleasure flee Flee pleasure and pleasure will follow thee.”

“Love me love my dog.”

“Every man as he loveth quoth the good man when he kissed the cow.”

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

“The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,As sages in all times assert;The happy man's without a shirt.”

“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.”

“All a green willow, willow,All a green willow is my garland.”

“… I write for this Remembering and considering what the pith is, That by remembrance of these proverbs may grow. In this tale, erst talked with a friend, I show As many of them as we could fitl...”

“Beware of, Had I wist.”

“Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste, Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.”

“And ones their hastie heate a littell controlde, Than perceiue they well, hotte love soone colde. And whan hasty witlesse mirth is mated weele, Good to be mery and wise, they thinke and feele.”

“And once their hasty heat a little controlled, Than perceive they well, hot love soon cold. And when hasty witless mirth is mated well, Good to be merry and wise, they think and feel.”

“The more hast the lesse speede.”

“Beaten with his owne rod.”

“Looke or ye leape.”

“He that will not whan he may, Whan he would, he shall haue nay.”

“Than farewell riches, the fat is in the fire, And neuer shall I to like riches aspire.”

“Whan the sunne shinth make hay, whiche is to say, Take time whan time comth, lest time steale away.”