Thomas Tusser quotes
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“At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.”
-- Thomas TusserSource : Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1580)
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“Seek home for rest, for home is best.”
-- Thomas TusserSource : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century”, p.243, Lackington, Allen
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“Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.”
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“February, fill the ***** with what thou dost like.”
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“Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.”
-- Thomas TusserSource : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.2
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“Except wind stands as it never stood It is an ill wind turns none to good.”
-- Thomas TusserSource : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.39
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“Sing hey! Sing hey! For Christmas Day; Twine mistletoe and holly. For a friendship glows In winter snows, And so let's all be jolly! At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year”
-- Thomas TusserSource : Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1580)
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“Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.”
-- Thomas TusserSource : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.221
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“Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.”
-- Thomas TusserSource : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century”, p.29, Lackington, Allen
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“Provide of thine own, to have all things at hand; Less work and the workman, unoccupied, stand. Make dry over-head both hovel and shack. Wash sheep (for the better) where water doth run; Let him go cleanly, and dry in the sun. Thy houses and and barns would be looked upon; And all things a[...]ed, ere harvest come on. At midsummer, down with the brambles and brakes; And after, abroad, with thy forks and thy rakes; Set movers a mowing, where meadow is grown; The longer now standing, the worse to be mown.”
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“In harvest time, harvest folk, servants and all Should make, all together, good cheer in the hall Once ended the harvest, let none be beguiled Please such as did help thee, man, woman and child.”
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“Time tries the troth in everything.”
-- Thomas TusserSource : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century”, p.3, Lackington, Allen
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“God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.”
-- Thomas TusserSource : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.21
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“Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.”
-- Thomas TusserSource : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.25
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“The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.”
-- Thomas TusserSource : Thomas Tusser (1848). “Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly corrected and ed. by H.M.W. [2 issues].”
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“Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.”
-- Thomas TusserSource : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century”, p.40, Lackington, Allen
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“A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.”
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“Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.”
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“Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.”
-- Thomas TusserSource : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.200
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“Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.”
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“Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.”
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“As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad.”
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“In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.”
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“A fool and his money be soon at debate”
-- Thomas TusserSource : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century”, p.23, Lackington, Allen
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“For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.”
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“Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.”
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“What a greater crime. Than loss of time.”
-- Thomas TusserSource : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century”, p.83, Lackington, Allen
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“If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well filled with muck by and by, to cover with mould, for a season to lie.”
-- Thomas TusserSource : Thomas Tusser (1848). “Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly corrected and ed. by H.M.W. [2 issues].”, p.38
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