196 Quotes by John Heywood

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

Rome wasn't built in a day, but it burned in one.

A woman hath nine lives like a cat.

This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.