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Thomas Tusser

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At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year." ~ (c. 1515-1580), author 'The Farmer's Daily Diet'.


— Thomas Tusser


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A fool and his money are soon parted.


— Thomas Tusser


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Seek home for rest, for home is best.


— Thomas Tusser


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Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.


— Thomas Tusser


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At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.


— Thomas Tusser


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God sendeth and giveth both mouth and meat.


— Thomas Tusser


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Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.


— Thomas Tusser


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


— Thomas Tusser


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About Thomas Tusser






Did you know about Thomas Tusser?

From King's College he moved to Trinity Hall Cambridge. This is an early version of the proverb A fool and his money are soon parted. In this work he also famously presents ten characteristics the perfect cheese must have:

Not like Gehazi i.

Five Hundred Points… contains the rhyming couplet:

A foole and his monie be soone at debatewhich after with sorrow repents him too late. Thomas Tusser (1524 – 3 May 1580) was an English poet and farmer best known for his instructional poem Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry an expanded version of his original title A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie first publiThomas Tusserd in 1557.

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