Thomas Tusser Quotes

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

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

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

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.

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

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.

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

A fool and his money be soon at debate

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.

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

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.

Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

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.

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

Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.

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

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.

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.

What a greater crime. Than loss of time.

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

Time tries the troth in everything.

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

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.

Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.

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.