Thomas Fuller Quotes and Quotations
Good is not good, where better is expected.
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
Old foxes want no tutors.
Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.
We could be cowards, if we had courage enough.
A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.
The mob has many heads but no brains.
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
Today is yesterday's pupil.
Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.
He that resolves to deal with none but honest men, must leave off dealing.
He is idle that might be better employed.
He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid.
Sickness is felt, but health not at all.
That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
God makes, and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man.
One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.
Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth.
He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Poor men's reasons are not heard.
Pride, perceiving humility honourable, often borrows her cloak.
Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.
A man surprised is half beaten.
Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.
What a day may bring, a day may take away.
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites.
The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Men never think their fortunes too great, nor their wit too little.
Soft words are hard arguments.
A good horse should be seldom spurred.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
They are rich who have true friends.
He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
Good is not good, where better is expected.
I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.
There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so, too.
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
He is rich that is satisfied.
Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.
Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.
Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.
A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
None can pray well but he that lives well.
Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
The Golden Age was never the present Age.
Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations, for sleep is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce. ... Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head, which hath lain fallow all night, with some serious work.
He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else.
He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
The real difference between men is energy.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Great hopes make great men.
Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.
Good is not good, where better is expected.
Prospect is often better than possession.
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high, as too low.
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so, too.
He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
A good life fears not life, nor death.
A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
Better hazard once than always be in fear.
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
He that would have fruit must climb the tree.
Better hazard once than always be in fear.
Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.
He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.
He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.
We would be cowards, if we had courage enough.
A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
The real difference between men is energy.
He that would have fruit must climb the tree.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
A good garden may have some weeds.
What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.
A good marksman may miss.
He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.
A stumble may prevent a fall.
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Sudden acquaintance brings repentance.
It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.
My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.
What a day may bring a day may take away.
Be you never so high, the law is above you.
Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage; and half shut afterward.
The image of God cut in ebony.
We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.
Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
In fair weather prepare for foul.
A good life is the only religion.
Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.
The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.
"They say so" is half a lie.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
Great and good are seldom the same man.