Roger Ascham

It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man…

— Roger Ascham

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.

— Roger Ascham

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

— Roger Ascham

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to…

— Roger Ascham

A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own…

— Roger Ascham

He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to…

— Roger Ascham

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.

— Roger Ascham

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

— Roger Ascham

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

— Roger Ascham

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

— Roger Ascham

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

— Roger Ascham

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

— Roger Ascham

Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and…

— Roger Ascham

I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great…

— Roger Ascham

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy…

— Roger Ascham

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none…

— Roger Ascham

Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live…

— Roger Ascham

Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new…

— Roger Ascham

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

— Roger Ascham

Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.

— Roger Ascham

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen…

— Roger Ascham

He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks;…

— Roger Ascham

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

— Roger Ascham

Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to…

— Roger Ascham

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue…

— Roger Ascham