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Thomas Tusser

Geburtstag: 19. Oktober 1524
Todesdatum: 3. Mai 1580

Thomas Tusser war ein englischer Dichter und Verfasser landwirtschaftlicher Arbeiten.

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„So wahr die Kühe wiederkäuen, // so wahr uns im Frühling die Blüten erfreuen, // wenn der Wind anders weht als er es immer tut, // so macht auch ein übles Los den Menschen nicht gut.“

— Thomas Tusser

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„It is an ill wind turns none to good“

— Thomas Tusser
Context: Yet true it is, as cow chews cud And trees at spring do yield forth bud, Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind turns none to good. A Description of the Properties of Wind, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

„[He] spread his bread with all sorts of butter, yet none would stick thereon.“

— Thomas Tusser
Thomas Fuller, describing Tusser's failure to profit from numerous ventures.

„At Christmas be merry and thankful withal,
And feast thy poor neighbors, the great with the small.“

— Thomas Tusser
"December Husbandry".

„Dry sun, dry wind;
Safe bind, safe find.“

— Thomas Tusser
Washing, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Than catch and hold while I may, fast binde, fast finde", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part I, Chapter III; "Fast bind, fast find; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind", William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, act ii. sc. 5.

„HAST thou a Friend, as heart may wish at will?
Then use him so, to have his friendship still.
Would'st have a Friend, would'st know what friend is best?
Have God thy friend who passeth all the rest.“

— Thomas Tusser
Posies for a Parlour, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

„To death we must stoop, be we high, be we low,
But how and how suddenly few be that know -,
What carry we then but a sheet to the grave,
To cover this carcass, of all that we have?“

— Thomas Tusser
Tenants of God's Farmstead or A Description of Life and Riches (c. 1557), lines 9-12.

„Naught venture naught have.“

— Thomas Tusser
"October's Abstract". Compare: "Naught venture naught have", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part I, Chapter XI.

„God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.“

— Thomas Tusser
Compare: "God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks", John Taylor, Works, vol. ii. p. 85 (1630).

„T is merry in hall
Where beards wag all.“

— Thomas Tusser
"August's Abstract". Compare: "Merry swithe it is in halle, When the beards waveth alle", Life of Alexander, 1312; (author unknown, but earlier wrongly attributed to Adam Davie, who had elsewhere written "Swithe mury hit is in halle, When burdes waiven alle").