Thomas Fuller Quotes
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.
A good garden may have some weeds.
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.
Good is not good where better is expected.
What a day may bring a day may take away.
Sudden acquaintance brings repentance.
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
Better hazard once than always be in fear.
Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Be a friend to thyself and others will be so too.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
He is idle that might be better employed.
They are rich who have true friends.
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
The Golden Age was never the present Age.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
None can pray well but he that lives well.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add ...
Show MoreBetter a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has n...
Show MoreHe that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.
Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else.
A good marksman may miss.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Comparison more than reality makes men happy or wretched.
Trust thyself only and another shall not betray thee.
Today is yesterday's pupil.
Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship
Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...
Show MoreOne may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
No man can be happy without a friend nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in dis...
Show MoreThe real difference between men is energy.
What a day may bring a day may take away.
It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
Poor men's reasons are not heard.
If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.
Abused patience turns to fury.
Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.
A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
A stumble may prevent a fall.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Good is not good, where better is expected.
Soft words are hard arguments.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Great hopes make great men.
Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.
In fair weather prepare for foul.
A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
Men never think their fortunes too great nor their wit too little.
A good horse should be seldom spurred.
My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life...
Show MoreThe mob has many heads but no brains.
Be you never so high the law is above you.
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 ne...
Show MoreGod makes and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man.
Be the business never so painful you may have it done for money.
One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction be...
Show MoreA wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth.
He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.
