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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

146 John Heywood 1497?-1580? John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:146
AUTHOR:John Heywood (1497?–1580?)
QUOTATION:All is fish that comth to net. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.
 
Note 1.
All ’s fish they get that cometh to net.—Thomas Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. February Abstract.

Where all is fish that cometh to net.—Gascoigne: Steele Glas. 1575. [back]