As order is heavenly, where quiet is had,
So error is hell, or a mischief as bad.
—Thomas Tusser
Topics: Order
Young children and chickens would ever be eating.
—Thomas Tusser
Topics: Appetite
Look before you leap; see before you go.
—Thomas Tusser
Topics: Caution
Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate’s claws.
—Thomas Tusser
Topics: Conformity
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
Topics: Aging, Age
Such master, such man.
—Thomas Tusser
Topics: Master
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
—Thomas Tusser