Roger Ascham Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

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.	1
He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.	2
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.	3
It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lady.	4
To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.	5
Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.	6