JHJohn Heywood

146 collected words

John Heywood

Dates not recorded

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1565 AD

I know on which side my bread is buttred.

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02c. 1565 AD

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.

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03c. 1565 AD

Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee That wilfully will neither heare nor see?

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04c. 1565 AD

The wrong sow by th' eare.

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05c. 1565 AD

Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother.

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06c. 1565 AD

Love me, love my dog.

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07c. 1565 AD

An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.

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08c. 1565 AD

For when I gave you an inch, you tooke an ell.

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09c. 1565 AD

Would yee both eat your cake and have your cake?

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10c. 1565 AD

Every man for himselfe and God for us all.

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11c. 1565 AD

Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.

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12c. 1565 AD

This hitteth the naile on the hed.

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13c. 1565 AD

Enough is as good as a feast.

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14Undated

I pray tbee let me and my fellow have A hair of the dog that bit us last night.

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15Undated

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.

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16Undated

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

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17Undated

Better is half a loaf than no bread.

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18Undated

She is neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring.

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19Undated

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

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20Undated

Better to be happy than wise.

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21Undated

All is well that ends well.

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22Undated

The more haste the less speed.

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23Undated

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

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24Undated

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

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