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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
Light
Many
Make

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Put your toong in your purse.
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Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.
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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 will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.
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Burnt child fire dredth.
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When the devil drives, needs must.
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Time trieth troth in every doubt.
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But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
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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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Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
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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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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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This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.
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The still sowe eats up all the draffe.
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And death makes equal the high and low.
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The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.
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All's well that ends well.
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It hurts not the tongue to give faire words.
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