Thomas Nashe Quotes

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Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits
of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

Thomas Nashe
Beauty is but a flower
Which wrinkles will devour.

Thomas Nashe
A traveller must have the back of an ass 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
Brightness falls from the air,
Queens have died young and fair,
Dust hath closed Helen's eye.
I am sick, I must die:
Lord, have mercy on us.

Thomas Nashe
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 wee, to witta woo!

Thomas Nashe
From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!

Thomas Nashe
O, tis a precious apothegmatical Pedant, who will find matter enough to dilate a whole day of the first invention of Fy, fa, fum, I smell the blood of an English-man.

Thomas Nashe
Evermore mayst thou be canonized as the Nonparreille of impious epistlers.

Thomas Nashe
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
No leaf he wrote on but was like a burning-glass to set on fire all his readers.
Of Pietro Aretino (1492–1556)

Thomas Nashe
Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

Thomas Nashe
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