John Heywood

"A woman hath nyne lyues like a cat."

"A penny for your thought."

"Ye can not sée the wood for trées."

"Marke ye, how she hitteth me on the thombis (quoth hée) And ye taunt me tyt ouer thumb (quoth shée) Sens tyt for tat (quoth I) on euen hand is set."

"Thrée maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away."

"Many handis make light warke."

"There is no fyre without some smoke."

"Set the cart before the hors."

"The mo the merier, we all daie here and sée Ye, but the fewer the better fare (said hée)"

"It is better to be An olde mans derlyng, than a yong mans werlyng."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can. Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all."

"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."

"This hitteth the nayle on the hed."

"God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat."

"More frayd then hurt."

"Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone."

"The wise man sayth, store is no sore."

"Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne."

"Rule the rost."

"Better to give then to take."

"No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth."

"I perfectly feele even at my fingers end."

"A sleveless errand."

"We both be at our wittes end."

"Reckeners without their host must recken twice."

"A day after the faire."

"Cut my cote after my cloth."

"Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me."

"A short horse is soone currid."

"She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring."

"Shee had seene far in a milstone."

"Better late than never."

"When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre."

"Pryde will have a fall; For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after."

"She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth."

"The still sowe eats up all the draffe."

"Ill weede growth fast."

"It is a deere collop That is cut out of th' owne flesh."

"Beggars should be no choosers."

"Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill."

"The rolling stone never gathereth mosse."

"To robbe Peter and pay Poule."

"A man may well bring a horse to the water, But he cannot make him drinke without he will."

"Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe."