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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

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John Heywood
Age: 83 †
Born: 1497
Born: January 1
Died: 1580
Died: January 1
Aphorist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
London
England
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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.
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An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.
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The more haste, the less speed.
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He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth.
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It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.
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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.
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Hit the nail on the head.
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It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.
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The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.
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Many hands make light work.
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The moon is made of a green cheese.
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It is good the have a hatch before the durre.
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Tis not the robe or garment I affect For who would marry with a suit of clothes?
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Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
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She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
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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.
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A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng.
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When the sunne shineth, make hay.
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Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.
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A cat may looke on a King.
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