Thomas Nashe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A traveller must have the back of an ***** to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.
-- Thomas Nashe

#Dog #Travel #Tails
Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!
-- Thomas Nashe

#Idiot #Fame #Frailty
New herrings, new!' we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of idiotism.
-- Thomas Nashe

#Titles #Cry #Hundred
Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king
-- Thomas Nashe

#Sweet #Kings #Spring
Blest is that government where no art thrives.
-- Thomas Nashe

#Art #Government #Thrive
Shape your coat according to your cloth.
-- Thomas Nashe

#Coats #Shapes
The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart.
-- Thomas Nashe

#Heart #Sun #Workers
Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
-- Thomas Nashe

#Fruit #Study #Behavior
From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!
-- Thomas Nashe

#Winter #Pestilence #Lord
Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.
-- Thomas Nashe

#Beauty #Beautiful #Queens
Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing- Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo! The palm and may make country houses gay, Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay- Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo! The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit, In every street these tunes our ears do greet- Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo! Spring, the sweet Spring!
-- Thomas Nashe

#Country #Sweet #Kings
Fair summer droops, droop men and beasts therefore: So fair a summer look for never more. All good things vanish, less than in a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay. Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year; The earth is hell when thou leav'st to appear.
-- Thomas Nashe

#Summer #Men #Years

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