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"Nothing is impossible to a willing heart." -- John Heywood
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John Heywood (c. 1497 – c. 1580) was an English writer known for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs.
"A hard beginning maketh a good ending.""If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.""Many hands make light work.""Rome was not built in one day.""The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.""Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.""Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.""When all candles be out, all cats be grey.""Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"
He was born in or near London, but fled to Europe to avoid religious persecution for his Roman Catholic faith and is believed to have died in Mechelen, Belgium. His son was the poet and translator Jasper Heywood, his daughter was Elizabeth Heywood, and his grandson was the poet and preacher John Donne.
A partial list:
Plays
- The Merry Play between Johan the Husband, Tyb his Wife, and Sir John the Priest
- The Mery Play between the Pardoner and the Frere, the Curate and Neybour Pratte (before 1533)
- The Play called the foure PP; a newe and a very mery interlude of a palmer, a pardoner, a potycary, a pedler (c. 1530)
- The Play of the Wether, a new and mery interlude of all maner of Wethers (1533)
- The Play of Love (1533)
- A Dialogue on Wit and Folly
- The Four PP
Verse
- The Spider and the Flie (1556)
Collections
- Proverbs (c. 1538)
- The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
Famous Epigrams more less
- What you have, hold.
- Haste maketh waste. (1546)
- Out of sight out of minde. (1542)
- When the sun shineth, make hay. (1546)
- Look ere ye leap. (1546)
- Two heads are better than one. (1546)
- Love me, love my dog. (1546)
- Beggars should be no choosers. (1546)
- All is well that ends well. (1546)
- The fat is in the fire. (1546)
- I know on which side my bread is buttered. (1546)
- One good turn asketh another. (1546)
- A penny for your thought. (1546)
- Rome was not built in one day. (1546)
- Better late than never. (1546)
- An ill wind that bloweth no man to good. (1546)
- The more the merrier. (1546)
- You cannot see the wood for the trees. (1546)
- This hitteth the nail on the head. (1546)
- No man ought to look a given horse in the mouth. (1546)
- Tread a woorme on the tayle and it must turne agayne. (1546)
- Many hands make light work. (1546)
- Wolde ye bothe eate your cake and haue your cake? (1562)
Total Books: 111
A Dialogue of Proverbs [The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood Now First Collected with Illustrative Notes and a Memoir of the Author 6 Volumes] (Other) An Hundred Epigrammes [The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood Now First Collected with Illustrative Notes and a Memoir of the Author 6 Volumes] (Other) John Heywoodes Woorkes [The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood Now First Collected with Illustrative Notes and a Memoir of the Author 6 Volumes] (Other) |