John Heywood Quotes
One good turne asketh another.
Heywood, John. A Dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue. Thomas Berthelet, 1546, part I, chap. XI.
Essentially, this proverb is implicit in almost all political corruption.
This proverb which is taken seriously by most Chinese makes corruption harder to control.
The President was facing an imminent close defeat in the Congress and needed to tip the scales. He called one of the leaders who was opposed to his position and explained that he didn’t want to lose face. This was a classic Johnson proposal where the quid pro quo was not even subtle. Johnson got the vote of the leader’s bloc and indeed did reciporicate later.
John Heywood (c. 1497 – c. 1580) was an English writer known for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs. Although he is best known as a playwright, he was also active as a musician and composer, though no musical works survive. A devout Catholic, he nevertheless served as a royal servant to both the Catholic and Protestant regimes of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.
