You stand in your owne light.
John Heywood
(1497? - 1580)
Source: Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv. 1546
You stand in your owne light.
Yee have many strings to your bowe.
Would yee both eat your cake and have your cake?
Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?
Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee That wilfully will neither heare nor see?
While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.
While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.
When the sunne shineth, make hay.
When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.