John Heywood
John Heywood
John Heywoodwas an English writer known for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs. Although he is best known as a playwright, he was also active as a musician and composer, though no musical works survive...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDramatist
physicians
Feed by measure, and defy the physician.
sorrow storm comfort
Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.
death equal fig high low
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
bows prudence
Better is to bow than breake.
meat mouths providence
God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.
woe fruit care
A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!
clerks forget priests
But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
pitcher
Small pitchers have wyde eares.
contentment crowns earth
All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.
hay
When the sunne shineth, make hay.
flesh bones
It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.
bye poke
Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke,Yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in,Not for the poke, but the pyg good chepe to wyn.
flesh red fishes
She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
smoke
There is no fyre without some smoke.