“Love is a boy by poets styl'd;
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto I, line 843
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“4238. Spare the Rod, and spoil the Child.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734Related quotes
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“They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.”
Ralph Venning (1621–1673) English minister
Mysteries and Revelations, p. 5. (1649). Compare: "There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God, Than from theyr children to spare the rod." John Skelton, Magnyfycence, line 1954.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
"Mr. Icky"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
“There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God,
Than from theyr children to spare the rod.”
John Skelton (1460–1529) English poet
Magnificence, A goodly interlude, line 1954 (published c. 1533), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: He that spareth the rod hateth his son, Proverbs xiii. 24; They spare the rod and spoyl the child, Ralph Venning, Mysteries and Revelations (second ed.), p. 5. 1649; Spare the rod and spoil the child, Samuel Butler: Hudibras, pt. ii. c. i. l. 843.
Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
Source: Cults, Sects and Questions (c. 1979)
Matthew Lewis (writer) (1775–1818) English novelist and dramatist
Walter Scott, manuscript note written in 1825; cited from J. G. Lockhart The Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1896) p. 81 col. 2.
Criticism
“[Henry, to Rod] "Hell's not a place, Rod, it's something people do to each other."”
Michael Nava (1954) American writer
Source: The Burning Plain (1997), p.304 (Chapter 23)