Thomas Fuller Quotes

"Despair gives courage to a coward."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Courage, Despair)

"Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Power, Will)

"Eaten bread is forgotten."
- Thomas Fuller

"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Facts, Right, Will, Wrong)

"Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest."
- Thomas Fuller

"First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Wife, Conquest, First)

"Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Contentment, Fire)

"Better a tooth out than always aching."
- Thomas Fuller

"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."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Art, Actions, Echo, Fame, World)

"Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Compliments, Nothing)

"Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Wife, Eye)

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Home, Charity, End)

"Change of weather is the discourse of fools."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Change, Fools, Weather)

"Care and diligence bring luck."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Care, Diligence, Luck)

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Day)

"Better be alone than in bad company."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Company)

"Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Business, Money, May)

"Bad excuses are worse than none."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Excuses)

"Great hopes make great men."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Men)

"Better break your word than do worse in keeping it."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Word)

"If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Wife, Daughter)

"He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Friend)

"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."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Society, Class, Smile)

"Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Heart, Memories, Mind)

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Books, Learning)

"It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Blame, Praise)

"It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Peace, Madness, Sheep, Talk)

"In fair weather prepare for foul."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Weather)

"If you have one true friend you have more than your share."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Friend)

"If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Art, Blind)

"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Heart)

"If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully."
- Thomas Fuller

"Health is not valued till sickness comes."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Health, Sickness)

"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Being, Difference, Man)

"He that travels much knows much."
- Thomas Fuller

"He that hopes no good fears no ill."
- Thomas Fuller

"He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Eye)

"He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it."
- Thomas Fuller

"He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Devil, Man, Sin)

"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Man)

"He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Wife, Will)

"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Nothing, Poor, Promise)

"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Poor)

"He does not believe who does not live according to his belief."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Belief)

"If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Home, Will)

"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Day, Key, Night)

"The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Devil, Lies, Miser)

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Being, Pleasure)

"There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Friendship)

"The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Heir)

"The more wit the less courage."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Courage, Wit)

"The fool wanders, a wise man travels."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Fool, Man)

"There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Heart, Nothing, Tongue)

"Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Will)

"Scalded cats fear even cold water."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Fear, Cats, Water)

"Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Promises, Superstition)

"Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Humility, Pride)

"Today is yesterday's pupil."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Today, Yesterday)

"Poor men's reasons are not heard."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Men, Poor)

"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree."
- Thomas Fuller

"Pride will spit in pride's face."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Pride, Will)

"Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Kindness)

"With foxes we must play the fox."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Play)

"With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Action, Devil, Devotion)

"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Men, Sea, Wine)

"We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Sincerity)

"We have all forgot more than we remember."
- Thomas Fuller

"'Tis not every question that deserves an answer."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Question)

"Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Storms)

"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Men, Bachelors)

"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Help, Man)

"Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Travel, Fool, Man)

"Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Memory, Mind, Monuments, Treasure)

"'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Strength, Skill)

"One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: May)

"'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Wrong)

"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Complaining)

"A good friend is my nearest relation."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Friend)

"A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Wife, Fortune, Man)

"A man is not good or bad for one action."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Action, Man)

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Man, Passion)

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Man, Skill)

"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Lie, Scandal)

"Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Music, Time, Nothing)

"A good garden may have some weeds."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Garden, May)

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Love, Absence)

"A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Present)

"A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Jury)

"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Fool, Paradise, Man)

"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Money)

"A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Time, Conservative, First, Nothing)

"A book that is shut is but a block."
- Thomas Fuller

"A good horse should be seldom spurred."
- Thomas Fuller

"An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: God, Cheerfulness, Sadness, Worth)

"Nothing is easy to the unwilling."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Nothing)

"No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Friend, Man)

"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Knowledge, Fire, Light, Zeal)

"Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Men, Kindness, Revenge)

"Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Church, Clothes)

"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."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Thoughts, Judgment, Memory, Nothing, Order, Want)

"A wise man turns chance into good fortune."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Chance, Fortune, Man)

"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Anger, Soul)

"A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Woman)

"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Men, Determination, Lies)

"All things are difficult before they are easy."
- Thomas Fuller

"All doors open to courtesy."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Courtesy, Open)

"All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Patience)

"Abused patience turns to fury."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Patience)

"Old foxes want no tutors."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Old, Want)

"Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Beauty, Daughter, God, Building, Light)

"Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Men)