Thomas Tusser Quotes

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• Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
• Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.
• A fool and his money be soon at debate
• Seek home for rest, for home is best.
• February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like.
• What a greater crime. Than loss of time.
• Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
• God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.
• Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.
• 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…
• In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.
• As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad.
• Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
• Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.
• Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.
• Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.
• A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
• 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…
• At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
• Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

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