Thomas Tusser

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At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Christmas
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Seek home for rest, for home is best.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Home
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Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Nature
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A fool and his money are soon parted.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Money
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Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Debt
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A fool and his money be soon at debate
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Fool
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What a greater crime. Than loss of time.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Loss
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The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Loss
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Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Gay
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Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Law
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A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Money
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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.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Peace
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Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Looks
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God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Meat
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Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Agriculture
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In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Morning
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Time tries the troth in everything.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Time
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February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Dykes
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Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Medicine
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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 Tusser
Collection: Sea
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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 Tusser
Collection: Lying
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Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Agriculture
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Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: August
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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.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Years
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Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: Sadness