Quotes by Thomas Fuller

• Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
• Despair gives courage to a coward.
• Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
• Eaten bread is forgotten.
• Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
• Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
• First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
• Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
• Better a tooth out than always aching.
• 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.
• Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
• Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
• Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
• Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
• Care and diligence bring luck.
• Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.
• Better be alone than in bad company.
• Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
• Bad excuses are worse than none.
• Great hopes make great men.
• Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
• If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
• He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
• 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.
• Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
• Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
• It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
• It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
• In fair weather prepare for foul.
• If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
• If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
• If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
• If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
• Health is not valued till sickness comes.
• Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
• He that travels much knows much.
• He that hopes no good fears no ill.
• He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
• He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
• He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
• He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
• He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
• He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
• He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
• He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
• If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
• Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.
• The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
• There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
• There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
• The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
• The more wit the less courage.
• The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
• There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
• Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
• Scalded cats fear even cold water.
• Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
• Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
• Today is yesterday's pupil.
• Poor men's reasons are not heard.
• One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
• Pride will spit in pride's face.
• Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
• With foxes we must play the fox.
• With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
• Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
• We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
• We have all forgot more than we remember.
• 'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.
• Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.
• Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
• Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
• Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
• Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
• 'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
• One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
• 'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
• We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
• A good friend is my nearest relation.
• A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
• A man is not good or bad for one action.
• A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
• A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
• A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
• Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
• A good garden may have some weeds.
• Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
• A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
• A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
• A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
• A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
• A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
• A book that is shut is but a block.
• A good horse should be seldom spurred.
• An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
• Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
• No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
• Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
• Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
• Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
• 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.
• A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
• Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
• An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
• All things are difficult before they are easy.
• All doors open to courtesy.
• All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
• Abused patience turns to fury.
• Old foxes want no tutors.
• Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
• Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
• Fire tests gold, adversity tests brave hearts.