Thomas Tusser Quotes

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

A fool and his money be soon at debate

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

What a greater crime. Than loss of time.

The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.

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

Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.

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.

Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.

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.

Except wind stands as it never stood It is an ill wind turns none to good.

Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.

A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.

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.

In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.

Time tries the troth in everything.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

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.

February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like.

As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad.

Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.