Thomas Fuller Quotes & Sayings

Top 100 Thomas Fuller Quotes

#1. A man is not good or bad for one action.

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

#3. Health is just not valued until illness comes.

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

#5. Pride will spit in pride's face.

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

#7. Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

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

#9. The more wit the less courage.

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

#11. A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

#12. Custom is the Guide of the Ignorant.

#13. Despair gives courage to a coward.

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

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

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

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

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

#19. All doors open to courtesy.

#20. Old foxes want no tutors.

#21. Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

#22. 'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

#23. One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

#24. He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

#25. Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

#26. It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

#27. Bad excuses are worse than none.

#28. Better hazard once than always be in fear.

#29. All things are difficult before they are easy.

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

#31. The noblest revenge is to forgive

#32. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

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

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

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

#36. A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.

#37. Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

#38. Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

#39. It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

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

#41. We have all forgot more than we remember.

#42. Health is not valued till sickness comes.

#43. Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.

#44. Good clothes open all doors.

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

#46. A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

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

#48. He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

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

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

#51. Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

#52. If an ass goes travelling, he'll not come home a horse.

#53. Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

#54. Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.

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

#56. It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.

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

#58. Scalded cats fear even cold water.

#59. Poor men's reasons are not heard.

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

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

#62. Better be alone than in bad company.

#63. A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

#64. 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.

#65. A forced kindness deserves no thanks

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

#67. Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

#68. A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

#69. He that travels much knows much.

#70. The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

#71. Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

#72. You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.

#73. An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

#74. The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

#75. Abused patience turns to fury.

#76. The Way to think we have enough, is not to desire to have too much.

#77. The worse the passage the more welcome the port.

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

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

#80. He that hopes no good fears no ill.

#81. Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship

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

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

#84. Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come
as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

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

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

#87. Eaten bread is forgotten.

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

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

#90. Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

#91. A book that is shut is but a block.

#92. Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

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

#94. Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

#95. Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

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

#97. Better a tooth out than always aching.

#98. Danger past, God is forgotten.

#99. With foxes we must play the fox.

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

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