“To hold with the hare and run with the hound.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546)
“5188. To hold with the Hare, and run with the Hounds.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734Related quotes
“I mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the Hounde.”
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 107. Compare: "To hold with the hare and run with the hound", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part i, Chap. x.
“2782. If you run after two Hares, you will catch neither.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1734) : Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog, and Poor Richard's Almanack ( 1737) : He that pursues two Hares at once, does not catch one and lets t'other go.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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“He is as mad as a March hare.”
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Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet
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“It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake.”
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Book 3, line 764
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“It's the theatricality, Wuthering Heights, Hound of the Baskervilles.”
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