Thomas Fuller's Quotes

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

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

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

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

Better be alone than in bad company.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

A man is not good or bad for one action.

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

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

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

Eaten bread is forgotten.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Care and diligence bring luck.

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

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

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

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

In fair weather prepare for foul.

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

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

A book that is shut is but a block.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

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

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

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

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

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

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

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

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

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

He that travels much knows much.

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

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

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

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

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

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

The more wit the less courage.

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

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

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

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

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

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.

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.

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

All things are difficult before they are easy.

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

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

Abused patience turns to fury.

Great hopes make great men.

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

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

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

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

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

A good garden may have some weeds.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

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