Thomas Fuller Quotes

Thomas Fuller(Clergyman)

 

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

 

 

 

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

 

 

 

Old foxes want no tutors.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

 

 

 

Pride will spit in pride's face.

 

 

 

Better be alone than in bad company.

 

 

 

All things are difficult before they are easy.

 

 

 

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

 

 

 

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

In fair weather prepare for foul.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Care and diligence bring luck.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

 

 

 

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

 

 

 

Abused patience turns to fury.

 

 

 

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

 

 

 

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

 

 

 

Great hopes make great men.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

 

 

 

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

 

 

 

With foxes we must play the fox.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

He that travels much knows much.

 

 

 

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

 

 

 

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

 

 

 

Despair gives courage to a coward.

 

 

 

Today is yesterday's pupil.

 

 

 

A good garden may have some weeds.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Eaten bread is forgotten.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

All doors open to courtesy.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

 

 

 

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

A good friend is my nearest relation.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

 

 

 

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Better a tooth out than always aching.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

The more wit the less courage.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

 

 

 

A man is not good or bad for one action.

 

 

 

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

 

 

 

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

A book that is shut is but a block.

 

 

 

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Bad excuses are worse than none.

 

 

 

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

 

 

 

We have all forgot more than we remember.

 

 

 

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

 

 

 

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.