| Quotes |
Topic |
| Advice | Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"This is commonly misquotes as "You can't have you're cake and eat it, too. - John Heywood's Proverbs, 1546. |
| Beginnings | A hard beginning maketh a good ending. |
| Birds | Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood. |
| Cats | The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet. |
| Cats | When all candles be out, all cats be gray. |
| Devil | When the devil drives, needs must. |
| Devil | What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly. |
| Eating | God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat. |
| Gossip | Tell tales out of school. |
| Gossip | If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. |
| Hair | I pray thee let me and my fellow have A hair of the dog that bit us last night. |
| Hearing | Went in at the one eare and out at the other. |
| Idleness | What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness? |
| Inspirational | Many hands make light work. |
| Luck | Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee. |
| Luck | I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. |
| Luck | I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. |
| Men and Women | Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. |
| Pleasure | Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee. |
| Proverbial Phrases | By hooke or crooke. |
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