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Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shroud his head.


Thomas Heywood

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Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.
THOMAS HEYWOOD What the dickens!
THOMAS HEYWOOD The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.
THOMAS HEYWOOD Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting Quill Commandeth Mirth or Passion, was but Will.
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JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
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JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
JOHN HEYWOOD God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.
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JOHN HEYWOOD Put your toong in your purse.
JOHN HEYWOOD The neer to the church, the further from God.
JOHN HEYWOOD A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
HEYWOOD BROUN The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
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HEYWOOD BROUN We must bring ourselves to realize that it is necessary to support free speech for the things we hat...
HEYWOOD BROUN Men are blind in their own cause.
HEYWOOD BROUN The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is ...
HEYWOOD BROUN The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
HEYWOOD BROUN Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
HEYWOOD BROUN Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
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JOHN HEYWOOD A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
JOHN HEYWOOD Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hu...
HEYWOOD BROUN In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this does not mean that he must be in hi...
HEYWOOD BROUN Three may keep counsel, if two are away.
JOHN HEYWOOD A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
HEYWOOD BROUN When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.)
JOHN HEYWOOD What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be gray.
JOHN HEYWOOD The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet.
JOHN HEYWOOD Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
JOHN HEYWOOD To drink away sorrow.
JOHN HEYWOOD As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.
JOHN HEYWOOD Better is to bow than breake.
JOHN HEYWOOD What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?
JOHN HEYWOOD The urge to gamble is so universal, and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
HEYWOOD BROUN Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
JOHN HEYWOOD Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
HEYWOOD BROUN Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
HEYWOOD BROUN The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
HEYWOOD BROUN The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
HEYWOOD BROUN Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
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HEYWOOD BROUN If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent ...
JOHN HEYWOOD Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
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HEYWOOD BROUN If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
JOHN HEYWOOD Tell tales out of school.
JOHN HEYWOOD Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
HEYWOOD BROWN What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
HEYWOOD BROWN Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.
JOHN HEYWOOD I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but al...
JOHN HEYWOOD Went in at the one eare and out at the other.
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JOHN HEYWOOD Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
HEYWOOD BROUN Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tire, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
HEYWOOD BROUN A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.
JOHN HEYWOOD Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
HEYWOOD BROUN A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight begins.
HEYWOOD BROUN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
JOHN HEYWOOD 'Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?
JOHN HEYWOOD It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.]
JOHN HEYWOOD Haste makes waste.
JOHN HEYWOOD This wonder lasted nine daies.
JOHN HEYWOOD An ill wind that bloweth no man good-- The blower of which blast is she.
JOHN HEYWOOD One swallow maketh not a summer. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
JOHN HEYWOOD At our wittes end.
JOHN HEYWOOD Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
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JOHN HEYWOOD God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.
JOHN HEYWOOD Yee have many strings to your bowe.
JOHN HEYWOOD It is good the have a hatch before the durre.
JOHN HEYWOOD To grow a philosopher's beard.
JOHN HEYWOOD To give importance to trifling matters.
JOHN HEYWOOD A precious pair of brothers [i.e., rascals].
JOHN HEYWOOD By hooke or crooke.
JOHN HEYWOOD Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
JOHN HEYWOOD Set all at sixe and seven.
JOHN HEYWOOD Nought venture nought have.
JOHN HEYWOOD Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.
JOHN HEYWOOD Two heads are better than one.
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HEYWOOD HALE BROUN Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurement it invites the att...
HEYWOOD HALE BROUN Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for a...
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HEYWOOD C. BROUN Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else
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HEYWOOD C. BROUN Repartee is what you wish you'd said
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HEYWOOD C. BROUN Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job...
HEYWOOD C. BROUN Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
HEYWOOD C. BROUN The pursuit of happiness belongs to us, but we must climb around or over the church to get it
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HEYWOOD C. BROUN A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel
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THOMAS HOBBES Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or ev...
THOMAS SOWELL Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and th...
THOMAS BECKET I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible wo...
THOMAS SCHLAMME A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
THOMAS PAINE If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
THOMAS PAINE I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll ...
THOMAS LYNCH Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
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CLARENCE THOMAS Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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THOMAS SOWELL That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
THOMAS PAINE The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
THOMAS PAINE I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, lovi...
THOMAS PAINE Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting ...
THOMAS PAINE An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
THOMAS PAINE These are the times that try men's souls.
THOMAS PAINE What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value...
THOMAS PAINE Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
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THOMAS HOBBES No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
THOMAS HOBBES Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
THOMAS HOBBES Words are the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...
THOMAS HOBBES Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them w...
THOMAS AQUINAS God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
THOMAS AQUINAS How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
THOMAS AQUINAS If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the...
THOMAS AQUINAS It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of...
THOMAS AQUINAS Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the pers...
THOMAS AQUINAS Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
THOMAS AQUINAS The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINE An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
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IRWIN THOMAS I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
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IRWIN THOMAS Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
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IRWIN THOMAS I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
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ISAIAH THOMAS I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.
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