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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 112 |
| AUTHOR: | John Heywood (1497?–1580?) |
| QUOTATION: | Better is to bow then breake. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| Note 1. Rather to bowe than breke is profitable; Humylite is a thing commendable. The Morale Proverbs of Cristyne; translated from the French (1390) by Earl Rivers, and printed by Caxton in 1478. [back] |
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