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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.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet.

When all candles be out, all cats be gray.

When the devil drives, needs must.

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.

Tell tales out of school.

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

I pray thee let me and my fellow have A hair of the dog that bit us last night.

Went in at the one eare and out at the other.

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

Many hands make light work.

Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.

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.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

By hooke or crooke.