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13 Quotes for 'Thomas Tusser' in the Database.
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Ill husbandry braggeth
To go with the best:
Good husbandry baggeth
Up gold in his chest.
- Thomas Tusser,
Topic: Agriculture
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry--Comparing Good Husbandry (ch. LII)
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Ill husbandry lieth
In prison for debt:
Good husbandry spieth
Where profit get.
- Thomas Tusser,
Topic: Agriculture
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry--Comparing Good Husbandry (ch. LII)
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Young children and chickens would ever be eating.
Topic: Appetite
Source: Points of Huswifery--Super Matters (V)
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Sweet April showers
Do bring May flowers.
Topic: April
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (ch. XXXIX)
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Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Few lend (but fools)
Their working tools.
- Thomas Tusser,
Topic: Borrowing
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry--September's Abstract, first lines also in June's Abstract
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At Christmas play, and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
Topic: Christmas
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (ch. XII)
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February, fill the dyke
With what thou dost like.
Topic: February
Source: Hundred Points of Good Husbandry--February's Husbandry
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A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Source: None
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'Tis merry in hall
Where beards wag all.
- Thomas Tusser,
Topic: Merriment
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry--August's Abstract
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As order is heavenly, where quiet is had,
So error is hell, or a mischief as bad.
Topic: Order
Source: Points of Huswifery--Huswifery Admonitions (XII, p. 251)
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At Christmas play, and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (ch. XII)
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Safe bind, safe find.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Five Hundred points of Good Husbandry--Washing
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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.
Topic: Tides
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandrie (ch. XIV, st. 5)
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