What heart can think, or tongue express,
The harm that groweth of idleness?
—John Heywood
Topics: Idleness
They must hunger in frost that will not work in heat.
—John Heywood
Topics: Work
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
—John Heywood
Topics: Choice
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man’s without a shirt.
—John Heywood
Topics: Happiness
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
—John Heywood
Topics: Beginnings, Ending, One liners, Secrets of Success, Beginning
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
—John Heywood
Topics: Marriage, Weddings
Nought venture nought have.
—John Heywood
Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee that wilfully will neither heare nor see?
—John Heywood
Topics: Knowledge
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
—John Heywood
Three may keep counsel, if two are away.
—John Heywood
Topics: Agreement
Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.
—John Heywood
Topics: Pleasure, Happiness