More from John Heywood

  1. Haste maketh waste.
  2. Look ere ye leap.
  3. 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…
  4. He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay.
  5. The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
  6. The fat is in the fire.
  7. When the sun shineth, make hay.
  8. The tide tarrieth no man.

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