Tusser Quotes

#1. THOMAS TUSSER. 1523-1580. Moral Reflections on the Wind. Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind turns none to good. {95}

Various

#2. 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

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

Thomas Tusser

#4. A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

Thomas Tusser

#5. Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

Thomas Tusser

#6. I always try to take projects I'm genuinely interested and passionate about versus just trying to take projects for the money.

Michael Dougherty

#7. I would love to see more women making their mark in the music that I love so much ... There are so many more out there just waiting for their shot. I hope they get it!

Carrie Underwood

#8. At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.

Thomas Tusser

#9. Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.

Thomas Tusser

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

Thomas Tusser

#11. Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Thomas Tusser

#12. As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad.

Thomas Tusser

#13. Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

Thomas Tusser

#14. Time tries the troth in everything.

Thomas Tusser

#15. A fool and his money be soon at debate

Thomas Tusser

#16. God sendeth and giveth both mouth and meat.

Thomas Tusser

#17. 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.

Thomas Tusser

#18. I realized then that it was a game we were playing; from the very beginning. But we weren't playing the same game and when it came down to it, he wasn't playing by the rules.

Jessica Marie Gilliland

#19. The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.

Thomas Tusser

#20. What a greater crime. Than loss of time.

Thomas Tusser

#21. I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis of the general social advantage, taking an ever greater responsibility for directly organizing investments.

John Maynard Keynes

#22. especially as they did not trust one another.

Thucydides

#23. Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.

Thomas Tusser

#24. February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like.

Thomas Tusser

#25. Except wind stands as it never stood
It is an ill wind turns none to good.

Thomas Tusser

#26. Seek home for rest, for home is best.

Thomas Tusser

#27. Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

Thomas Tusser

#28. 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.

Thomas Tusser

#29. A fool and his money are soon parted.

Thomas Tusser

#30. 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.

Thomas Tusser

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

Thomas Tusser

#32. In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.

Thomas Tusser