More from John Heywood

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

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