196 Quotes by John Heywood

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.

Went in at the one ear and out at the other.

The more the merrier.

Tell tales out of school.

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

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

What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a nettle green (as th'emeraude) spread in a bed of roses like the ruby red. Between which two colors he thought, but his eye, The green nettle did the red rose beautify. "How be it," he asked the nettle, "what thing Made him so pert? So nigh the Rose to Spring.