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• Better to be happy than wise.

  John Heywood

  Happiness, Wise

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

  John Heywood

  Cat, Grey, Candle

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.13

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• Don't put the cart before the horse.

  John Heywood

  Patience, Horse, Carts

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• When the sunne shineth, make hay.

  John Heywood

  Hay

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• The more haste, the less speed.

  John Heywood

  Patience, Haste, Speed

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.384

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• There is no fyre without some smoke.

  John Heywood

  Smoke

  John Heywood, Spenser Society (1867). “Publications of the Spenser Society”, p.57

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

  John Heywood

  Pleasure, Thee

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.32

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• Hunger makes hard beans sweet.

  John Heywood

  Sweet, Hunger, Beans

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• One good turn asketh another.

  John Heywood

  Kindness, Turns

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.452

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• Wedding is destiny,
  And hanging likewise.

  John Heywood

  Marriage, Wedding, Destiny

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• Good to be merie and wise.

  John Heywood

  Wise

  John Heywood, Julian Sharman (1972). “The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the "Proverbes" of that Author Printed 1546”

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• Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

  John Heywood

  Pleasure, Refrain

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• To give importance to trifling matters.

  John Heywood

  Giving, Matter, Importance

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

  John Heywood

  Happiness, Laughter, Loss

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.

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• Children and fools cannot lie.

  John Heywood

  Children, Lying, Fool

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.343

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• Cut your coat according to your cloth.

  John Heywood

  Humility, Cutting, Coats

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• None so blind as those who won't see.

  John Heywood

  Vision, Blind, American Gods

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• It hurts not the tongue to give faire words.

  John Heywood

  Giving

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• Look before you leap.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Looks

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• Better is half a loaf than no bread.

  John Heywood

  Food, Half, Bread

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.334

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• Put your toong in your purse.

  John Heywood

  Purses

  John Heywood, Frederick William Fairholt (1846). “A Dialogue on Wit and Folly”, p.31

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• All things on earth thus change, some up, some down;
  Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

  John Heywood

  Contentment, Crowns, Earth

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• Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.

  John Heywood

  Ease, World, Mines

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.

  John Heywood

  Proud

  John Heywood, Julian Sharman (1972). “The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the "Proverbes" of that Author Printed 1546”

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• Children and fooles cannot lye.

  John Heywood

  Children

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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