John Quotes

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.

There is no fyre without some smoke.

Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.

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

One swallow never makes a summer.

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.

Prove your friend ere you have need, but in deed A friend is never known till a man have need.

Every dog has its day.

Hunger makes hard beans sweet.

God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.

Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

Feed by measure, and defy the physician.

Children and fooles cannot lye.

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

While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.

The more haste, the less speed.

Ill wéede growth fast.

Love me litle, love me long.

Put your toong in your purse.

It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.

Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.

Many handis make light warke.

Burnt child fire dredth.

All is fish that comth to net.

When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.

I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.

Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.

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

Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?

The still sowe eats up all the draffe.

Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.

A fooles bolt is soone shot.

The happy man's without a shirt.

Better to give then to take.

One swallow maketh not summer.

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

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

Little pitchers have big ears.

Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong.

A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng.

Small pitchers have wyde eares.

To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.

An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.

One good turne asketh another.

Good to be merie and wise.

Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.

Of a good beginning cometh a good end.

Hee must have a long spoone, shall eat with the devill.