Quote

Hunger makes hard beans sweet.

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
Beans
Hunger
Sweet
Makes
Hard

More quotes by John Heywood

Image
Many hands make light work.
John Heywood
Image
Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
John Heywood
Image
A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng.
John Heywood
Image
This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.
John Heywood
Image
Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.
John Heywood
Image
To give importance to trifling matters.
John Heywood
Image
Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.
John Heywood
Image
Three may keep counsel, if two be away.
John Heywood
Image
While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.
John Heywood
Image
A woman hath nine lives like a cat.
John Heywood
Image
Burnt child fire dredth.
John Heywood
Image
All's well that ends well.
John Heywood
Image
When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.
John Heywood
Image
The moon is made of a green cheese.
John Heywood
Image
Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.
John Heywood
Image
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? This is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're cake and eat it, too.
John Heywood
Image
A short horse is soone currid.
John Heywood
Image
Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
John Heywood
Image
A day after the faire.
John Heywood
Image
For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell.
John Heywood