Tusser Quotes
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"Sweet April showers do spring May flowers."
Thomas Tusser
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English Poet
"Yet true it is, as cow chews cud,/ And trees at spring do yield forth bud,/ Except wind stands as never it stood,/ It is an ill wind turns none to good."
Thomas Tusser
"Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health."
Thomas Tusser
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English Poet
Health
"A fool and his money be soon at debate (Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry)"
Thomas Tusser
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Debate
"At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year."
Thomas Tusser
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Advice
English Poet
"February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like."
Thomas Tusser
"Seek home for rest, for home is best."
Thomas Tusser
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English Poet
Home
"Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime."
Thomas Tusser
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Age And Aging
Boys
"A fool and his money are soon parted."
Thomas Tusser
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English Proverbs
Fools And Foolishness
"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 nex"
Thomas Tusser
"In doing of either, let wit bear a stroke,/ For buying or selling of pig in a poke."
Thomas Tusser
"Some respite to husbands the weather may send,/ But housewives' affairs have never an end."
Thomas Tusser
"Who goeth a borrowing/ Goeth a sorrowing./ Few lend (but fools)/ Their working tools."
Thomas Tusser
"God sendeth and giveth both mouth and meat"
Thomas Tusser
"Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, Their credit is naught, go they ever so gay"
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
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Age And Aging
"Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws."
Thomas Tusser
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Conformity
"God sendeth and giveth both mouth and meat."
Thomas Tusser
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English Poet
"Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay."
Thomas Tusser
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English Poet
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