Thomas Tusser Quotes
1520–1580 England
Thomas Tusser (circa 1524–3 May 1580), born in Rivenhall, Essex, was an English poet and farmer.
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Also known as: Tusser, Thomas
24 quotes
'Tis merry in hall
Where beards wag all.
At Christmas be merry and thankful withal,
And feast your poor neighbors, the great and the small.
Though home be but homely, yet huswife is taught
That home hath no fellow to such as have aught.
Ill husbandry braggeth
To go with the best:
Good husbandry baggeth
Up gold in his chest.
The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;
For master and servant oft changing is loss.
Ill husbandry lieth
In prison for debt:
Good husbandry spieth
Where profit to get.
As order is heavenly, where quiet is had,
So error is hell, or a mischief as bad.
At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
February, fill the dyke
With what thou dost like.
Such mistress, such Nan,
Such master, such man.
Dry sun, dry wind;
Safe bind, safe find.
Young children and chickens would ever be eating.
'Tis good to be known,
To have all of thy own.
Who goeth a borrowing,
Goeth a sorrowing.
A fool and his money be soon at debate:
Which after with sorrow repents him too late.
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Time tries the troth in everything.
The next, keep under Sir Hobbard de Hoy:
The next, a man, no longer a boy.
A fool and his money be soon at debate.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Tusser (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.