Roger Ascham Quotes

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.

Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.

A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room.

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.