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John Heywood was an English writer known for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs. Although he is best known as a playwright, he was also active as a musician and composer, though no musical works survive.

✵ 1497 – 1580
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John Heywood Quotes

“A penny for your thought.”

John Heywood

Part II, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546)
Variant: A penny for your thought.

“Beware of, Had I wist.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 2.
Proverbs (1546)

“Burnt child fire dredth.”

John Heywood

Part II, chapter 2.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Beaten with his owne rod.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 2.
Proverbs (1546)

“Happy man, happy dole.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 3.
Proverbs (1546)

Happiness

“Have yee him on the hip.”

John Heywood

Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Like will to like.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546)

“Part I, chapter 7.”

John Heywood

Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Parting

“Look before you leap.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 2.
Proverbs (1546)

“More frayd then hurt.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Hurt

“Better late than never.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The tide tarrieth no man.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 3.
Proverbs (1546)

“By hooke or crooke.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A day after the faire.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 8.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Many small make a great.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Mad as a march hare.”

John Heywood

Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Madness

“Love me litle, love me long.”

John Heywood

Part II, chapter 2.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Love

“This hitteth the nayle on the hed.”

John Heywood

This hits the nail on the head.
Part II, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546)

“Ill weede growth fast.”

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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

John Heywood

Who is worse shod, than the shoemakers wife,
With shops full of shoes all her life?
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546)

Shoe