John Heywood

"The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete."

"While the grasse groweth the horse starveth."

"Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood."

"Rome was not built in one day."

"Yee have many strings to your bowe."

"Many small make a great."

"Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe."

"Better is halfe a lofe than no bread."

"Nought venter nought have."

"Children and fooles cannot lye."

"Set all at sixe and seven."

"All is fish that comth to net."

"Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?"

"One good turne asketh another."

"By hooke or crooke."

"She frieth in her owne grease."

"I pray thee let me and my fellow have A haire of the dog that bit us last night."

"This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies."

"New brome swepth cleene."

"Burnt child fire dredth."

"All is not Gospell that thou doest speake."

"Love me litle, love me long."

"A fooles bolt is soone shot."

"A woman hath nine lives like a cat."

"A peny for your thought."

"You stand in your owne light."

"Though chaunge be no robbry."

"Might have gone further and have fared worse."

"The grey mare is the better horse."

"Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away."

"Small pitchers have wyde eares."

"Many hands make light warke."

"The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men."

"Out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne."

"There is no fire without some smoke."

"One swallow maketh not summer."

"Fieldes have eies and woods have eares."

"A cat may looke on a King."

"It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest."

"Have yee him on the hip."

"It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare."

"Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre."

"Time trieth troth in every doubt."

"Mad as a march hare."

"Much water goeth by the mill That the miller knoweth not of."

"He must needes goe whom the devill doth drive."

"Set the cart before the horse."

"The moe the merrier."

"To th' end of a shot and beginning of a fray."

"It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling."