Thomas Tusser Quotes

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

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.

Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

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

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

What a greater crime. Than loss of time.

Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.

February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

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.

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.

Time tries the troth in everything.

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

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.

A fool and his money be soon at debate

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

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

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

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