Ascham's Quotes

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

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

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

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language. — Roger Ascham

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

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. — Roger Ascham

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

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

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience. — Roger Ascham

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. — Roger Ascham

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

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

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

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. — Roger Ascham

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

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

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill. — Roger Ascham