40 Quotes by Thomas Tusser

A fool and his money be soon at debate (Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry)

Some respite to husbands the weather may send,/ But housewives' affairs have never an end.

In doing of either, let wit bear a stroke,/ For buying or selling of pig in a poke.

A fool and his money be soon at debate

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

Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

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.

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.

Time tries the troth in everything.