Geburtstag: 1497
Todesdatum: 1580
John Heywood war ein englischer Dramatiker und Musiker der frühen Tudor-Zeit. Eines seiner bekannteren Stücke ist The Play of the Weather.
— John Heywood
Though you love not to buy the pig in the poke,
Yet snatch you at the poke, that the pig is in,
Not for the poke, but the pig good cheap to win.
Part II, chapter 9.
— John Heywood
Part I, chapter 10.
— John Heywood
Part I, chapter 11.
— John Heywood
A man may well bring a horse to the water,
but he can not make him drink without he will.
Part I, chapter 11.
— John Heywood
When all candles are out, all cats are grey,
All things are then of one color, as who say.
And this proverb faith, for quenching hot desire,
Foul water as soon as faire, will quench hot fire.
Part I, chapter 5.
— John Heywood
Part I, chapter 10.
— John Heywood
That much is my bow bent to shoot at these marks,
And kill fear, when the sky falls we shall have larks.
Part I, chapter 4.
— John Heywood
Well aunt, said Ales, all is well that ends well.
Yes Ales, of a good beginning comes a good end.
Part I, chapter 10.
— John Heywood
He that will not when he may,
When he would, he shall have nay.
Part I, chapter 3.
— John Heywood
True, said Ales, things done can not be undone,
Be they done in due time, too late, or too soon,
But better late than never to repent this,
To late, said my aunt, this repentance shown is,
When the steed is stolen shut the stable door.
Part I, chapter 10
"Better late than never" is recorded earlier by Livy as Potius sero quam numquam. (book IV, sec. 23).
— John Heywood
Would you both eat your cake, and have your cake?
Part II, chapter 9.
— John Heywood
Like a pickpurse pilgrim, you pry and you prowl
At rovers, to rob Peter and pay Paul.
Part I, chapter 11.
