“4238. Spare the Rod, and spoil the Child.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.”
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.
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Canto I, line 843
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“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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
"Mr. Icky"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
Source: Cults, Sects and Questions (c. 1979)
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Source: The Burning Plain (1997), p.304 (Chapter 23)
Rob Pike (1956) software engineer
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John Sterling (1938) Sports broadcaster
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