Thomas Tusser Quotes & Sayings

Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm. — 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. — Thomas Tusser

Time tries the troth in everything. — Thomas Tusser

Seek home for rest, for home is best. — Thomas Tusser

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

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

A fool and his money be soon at debate — 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

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

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

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

February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like. — Thomas Tusser

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and meat. — Thomas Tusser

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

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

Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. — Thomas Tusser

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

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health. — Thomas Tusser

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing. — Thomas Tusser

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

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

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers. — Thomas Tusser

What a greater crime. Than loss of time. — Thomas Tusser