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What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

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
Belly
Spent
Devil
Back

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Let the world slide, let the world go A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.
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I pray thee let me and my fellow have a haire of the dog that bit us last night.
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I know on which side my bread is buttered.
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It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.
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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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Make hay while the sun shines.
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Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.
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It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.
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A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.
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All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.
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Don't put the cart before the horse.
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The happy man's without a shirt.
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Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.
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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.
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It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.
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The still sowe eats up all the draffe.
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It is good the have a hatch before the durre.
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Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.
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Thrée maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away.
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