Quote#God & Faith
When all candels be out, all cats be grey
Quote byJohn Heywood · 1497–1580
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Proverbs (1546), 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..
English (original)
When all candels be out, all cats be grey, All thingis are then of one colour, as who sey. And this prouerbe faith, for quenching hot desyre, Foul water as soone as fayre, will quenche hot fyre.
— John Heywood
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Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.
Beware of, Had I wist.
Beaten with his owne rod.
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.
Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste, Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.