Thomas Tusser Quotes

“At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.”

— Thomas Tusser

“What a greater crime. Than loss of time.”

— Thomas Tusser

“A fool and his money are soon parted.”

— Thomas Tusser

“Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.”

— Thomas Tusser

“Seek home for rest, for home is best.”

— Thomas Tusser

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

— Thomas Tusser

“Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.”

— Thomas Tusser

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and meat.

— Thomas Tusser

“Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.”

— Thomas Tusser

“February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like.”

— Thomas Tusser

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

— Thomas Tusser

“Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.”

— Thomas Tusser

“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.”

— Thomas Tusser

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

— Thomas Tusser

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

— Thomas Tusser

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

— Thomas Tusser

“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

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

— Thomas Tusser

“Time tries the troth in everything.”

— Thomas Tusser

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

— Thomas Tusser

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

— Thomas Tusser

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

— Thomas Tusser

“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

“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

Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

— Thomas Tusser

“A fool and his money be soon at debate”

— Thomas Tusser