John Heywood: Quotes about horses

John Heywood was English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs. Explore interesting quotes on horse.
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“A short horse is soone currid.”

John Heywood

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

“Set the cart before the horse.”

John Heywood

Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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

John Heywood

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

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

John Heywood

Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But he cannot make him drinke without he will.

“While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.”

John Heywood

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

“The grey mare is the better horse.”

John Heywood

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