Thomas Fuller Quotes

» One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

» 'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

» He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

» One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

» He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

» Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

» Care and diligence bring luck.

» Great hopes make great men.

» First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

» We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

» With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

» A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

» It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

» Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

» An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

» Eaten bread is forgotten.

» All things are difficult before they are easy.

» In fair Weather prepare for foul.

» If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

» A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

» Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

» If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

» Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

» Better a tooth out than always aching.

» Scalded cats fear even cold water.

» No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

» Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

» Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

» Abused patience turns to fury.

» He that hopes no good fears no ill.

» Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

» Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

» There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

» Pride will spit in pride's face.

» Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

» Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

» A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

» Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

» Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

» He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

» A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

» Despair gives courage to a coward.

» Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

» An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

» Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

» Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

» Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

» The more wit the less courage.

» Bad excuses are worse than none.

» Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

» Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

» We have all forgot more than we remember.

» A good garden may have some weeds.

» A good friend is my nearest relation.

» If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

» Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

» Old foxes want no tutors.

» The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

» The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

» Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

» Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

» A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

» A man is not good or bad for one action.

» A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

» It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

» Poor men's reasons are not heard.

» He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

» Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

» Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

» He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

» Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

» Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

» Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

» Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

» Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

» He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.

» Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

» Light (God's eldest daughter) is a principal beauty in building.

» All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

» Better be alone than in bad company.

» Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.

» He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

» Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.

» Today is yesterday's pupil.

» Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

» Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

» The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

» Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

» He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

» Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

» A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

» A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

» A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

» 'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

» Health is not valued till sickness comes.

» He that travels much knows much.

» All doors open to courtesy.

» A good horse should be seldom spurred.

» A book that is shut is but a block.

» 'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

» There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

» There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

» A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

» If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

» We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

» If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

» If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

» A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be.

» Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

» Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

» He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

» Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

» With foxes we must play the fox.

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