Top quotes by Thomas Tusser

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers. Votes: 27

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year. Votes: 16

Sing hey! Sing hey! For Christmas Day; Twine mistletoe and holly. For a friendship glows In winter snows, And so let's all be jolly! At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year Votes: 13

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing. Votes: 10

Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm. Votes: 10

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. Votes: 7

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. Votes: 7

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health. Votes: 6

Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. Votes: 6

February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

A fool and his money are soon parted. Votes: 6

Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws. Votes: 6

In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight. Votes: 6

Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go. Votes: 5

Seek home for rest, for home is best. Votes: 5

A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Votes: 3

A fool and his money be soon at debate Votes: 3

Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest. Votes: 3

Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get. Votes: 3

The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss. Votes: 2

Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay. Votes: 2

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and meat. Votes: 2

As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad. Votes: 0

Except wind stands as it never stood It is an ill wind turns none to good. Votes: 0

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat. Votes: 0

If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well filled with muck by and by, to cover with mould, for a season to lie. Votes: 0

In harvest time, harvest folk, servants and all Should make, all together, good cheer in the hall Once ended the harvest, let none be beguiled Please such as did help thee, man, woman and child. Votes: 0

Provide of thine own, to have all things at hand; Less work and the workman, unoccupied, stand. Make dry over-head both hovel and shack. Wash sheep (for the better) where water doth run; Let him go cleanly, and dry in the sun. Thy houses and and barns would be looked upon; And all things a[...]ed, ere harvest come on. At midsummer, down with the brambles and brakes; And after, abroad, with thy forks and thy rakes; Set movers a mowing, where meadow is grown; The longer now standing, the worse to be mown. Votes: 0

Time tries the troth in everything. Votes: 0

What a greater crime. Than loss of time. Votes: 0