Thomas Fuller Quotes

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

We have all forgot more than we remember.

- Thomas Fuller

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

Eaten bread is forgotten.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

Care and diligence bring luck.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

A book that is shut is but a block.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

All things are difficult before they are easy.

- Thomas Fuller

A good friend is my nearest relation.

- Thomas Fuller

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

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

- Thomas Fuller

A good garden may have some weeds.

- Thomas Fuller

Better a tooth out than always aching.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- 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

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

- Thomas Fuller

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

- Thomas Fuller

With foxes we must play the fox.

- Thomas Fuller

Old foxes want no tutors.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- 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

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

- Thomas Fuller

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

- Thomas Fuller

Today is yesterday's pupil.

- Thomas Fuller

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

- Thomas Fuller

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

- Thomas Fuller

Despair gives courage to a coward.

- Thomas Fuller

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

- Thomas Fuller

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

All doors open to courtesy.

- Thomas Fuller

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

- Thomas Fuller

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

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

- Thomas Fuller

Bad excuses are worse than none.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- 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

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

- Thomas Fuller

In fair weather prepare for foul.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

Abused patience turns to fury.

- Thomas Fuller

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

Great hopes make great men.

- 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

The more wit the less courage.

- Thomas Fuller

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

- Thomas Fuller

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

He that travels much knows much.

- Thomas Fuller

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

- Thomas Fuller

Better be alone than in bad company.

- Thomas Fuller

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

- Thomas Fuller

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

- Thomas Fuller

Pride will spit in pride's face.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

- Thomas Fuller

A man is not good or bad for one action.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

- Thomas Fuller

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

- 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

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

- Thomas Fuller

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Fuller