John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
192 John Heywood 1497?-1580? John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 192 |
| AUTHOR: | John Heywood (1497?–1580?) |
| QUOTATION: | It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. viii. |
| Note 1. What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.—Pilpay: The Two Fishermen, fable xiv. It will never out of the flesh that ’s bred in the bone.—Ben Jonson: Every Man in his Humour, act i. sc. 1. [back] |