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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]