Set the cart before the horse.
John Heywood (1497? - 1580)
Source: Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. vii. 1546
Contributed by: Zaady
She frieth in her owne grease.
Source: Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi. 1546
No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
Source: Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v. 1546
Might have gone further and have fared worse.
Source: Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv. 1546
More frayd then hurt.
Source: Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv. 1546
Much water goeth by the mill That the miller knoweth not of.
Source: Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v. 1546
New brome swepth cleene.
Source: Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. i. 1546
It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.
Source: Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. viii. 1546
Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.
Let the world slide, 2 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.
Source: Be Merry Friends. 1598
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