Quote

Children and fooles cannot lye.

John Heywood

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Heywood
Age: 83 †
Born: 1497
Born: January 1
Died: 1580
Died: January 1
Aphorist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
London
England
Cannot
Children

More quotes by John Heywood

Image
Burnt child fire dredth.
John Heywood
Image
A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng.
John Heywood
Image
Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
John Heywood
Image
Don't put the cart before the horse.
John Heywood
Image
Many handis make light warke.
John Heywood
Image
Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
John Heywood
Image
A cat may looke on a King.
John Heywood
Image
It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.
John Heywood
Image
Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.
John Heywood
Image
A fooles bolt is soone shot.
John Heywood
Image
This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.
John Heywood
Image
One good turne asketh another.
John Heywood
Image
What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
John Heywood
Image
The nearer to the church, the further from God.
John Heywood
Image
Good to be merie and wise.
John Heywood
Image
Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.
John Heywood
Image
Rome was not built in one day.
John Heywood
Image
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.
John Heywood
Image
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 Heywood
Image
Hit the nail on the head.
John Heywood