Thomas Tusser Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

13 Famous Quotes by Thomas Tusser
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“At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (ch. XII)
“Safe bind, safe find.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Five Hundred points of Good Husbandry--Washing
“Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest. - Thomas Tusser,”
Agriculture Quotes
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry--Comparing Good Husbandry (ch. LII)
“Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get. - Thomas Tusser,”
Agriculture Quotes
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry--Comparing Good Husbandry (ch. LII)
“As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, So error is hell, or a mischief as bad.”
Order Quotes
Source: Points of Huswifery--Huswifery Admonitions (XII, p. 251)
“Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing. Few lend (but fools) Their working tools. - Thomas Tusser,”
Borrowing Quotes
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry--September's Abstract, first lines also in June's Abstract
“Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.”
April Quotes
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (ch. XXXIX)
“'Tis merry in hall Where beards wag all. - Thomas Tusser,”
Merriment Quotes
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry--August's Abstract
“Young children and chickens would ever be eating.”
Appetite Quotes
Source: Points of Huswifery--Super Matters (V)
“At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.”
Christmas Quotes
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (ch. XII)
“February, fill the dyke With what thou dost like.”
February Quotes
Source: Hundred Points of Good Husbandry--February's Husbandry
“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.”
Tides Quotes
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandrie (ch. XIV, st. 5)
“A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.”
Finance and economics Quotes