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Famous Roger Ascham Quotes
“Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.”
“Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.”
“It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.”
“By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.”
“Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.”
“There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.”
“As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.”
“To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.”
“Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.”
“The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.”
“To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.”