Thomas Tusser Quotes

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

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

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.

February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

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 are soon parted.

Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.