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

- 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

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…

- Thomas Nashe

Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!

- Thomas Nashe

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

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 hi…

- Thomas Nashe

Blest is that government where no art thrives.

- 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, …

- Thomas Nashe