Catholics From England

"One swallow maketh not summer."

"There is no fire without some smoke."

"Out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne."

"The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men."

"Many hands make light warke."

"Small pitchers have wyde eares."

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

"The grey mare is the better horse."

"Might have gone further and have fared worse."

"Though chaunge be no robbry."

"You stand in your owne light."

"A peny for your thought."

"A woman hath nine lives like a cat."

"A fooles bolt is soone shot."

"Love me litle, love me long."

"All is not Gospell that thou doest speake."

"Burnt child fire dredth."

"New brome swepth cleene."

"And also I shall to reueng former hurtis, Hold their noses to grinstone, and syt on theyr skurtis."

"Who hopeth in Gods helpe, his helpe can not starte: Nothing is impossible to a willyng hart, And will maie wyn my herte, herein to consent, To take all thinges as it cometh, and be content."

"That muche is my bowe bent to shoote at these marks, And kyll feare, when the sky falth we shall haue larks."

"Like will to like."

"A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng."

"Happy man, happy dole."

"So many heads so many wits."

"While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground."

"When the iron is hot, strike."

"Weddyng is desteny, And hangyng likewise."

"And while I at length debate and beate the bushe, There shall steppe in other men, and catche the burdes, And by long time lost in many vayne wurdes."

"Time is tickell, and out of sight out of minde. Than catche and holde while I may, fast binde fast finde."

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

"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."

"All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland."

"Beware of, Had I wist."

"Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste, Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste."

"And ones their hastie heate a littell controlde, Than perceiue they well, hotte love soone colde. And whan hasty witlesse mirth is mated weele, Good to be mery and wise, they thinke and feele."

"And once their hasty heat a little controlled, Than perceive they well, hot love soon cold. And when hasty witless mirth is mated well, Good to be merry and wise, they think and feel."

"The more hast the lesse speede."

"Beaten with his owne rod."

"Looke or ye leape."

"He that will not whan he may, Whan he would, he shall haue nay."

"Than farewell riches, the fat is in the fire, And neuer shall I to like riches aspire."

"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."

"The tide tarrieth no man."

"Wolde ye bothe eate your cake, and haue your cake?"

"For whan I gaue you an ynche, ye tooke an ell."

"An yll wynde that blowth no man to good."

"What man, loue me, loue me dog."

"Yes yes (quoth she) for all those wyse woordis vttred, I know on which syde my bread is buttred. But there will no butter cleaue on my breade. And on my bread any butter to be spreade. Euery promise that thou therin dost vtter, Is as sure as it were sealed with butter."

"Ye set circumquaques to make me beleue Or thinke, that the moone is made of gréene chéese."