Famous Thomas Fuller Quotations

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"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree."
by 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."
by Thomas Fuller
"Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them."
by Thomas Fuller
"A man is not good or bad for one action."
by Thomas Fuller
"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
by Thomas Fuller
"The devil himself is good when he is pleased."
by Thomas Fuller
"The fool wanders, a wise man travels."
by Thomas Fuller
"The more wit the less courage."
by Thomas Fuller
"There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends."
by Thomas Fuller
"Today is yesterday's pupil."
by Thomas Fuller
"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help."
by Thomas Fuller
"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed."
by Thomas Fuller
"With foxes we must play the fox."
by Thomas Fuller
"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."
by Thomas Fuller
"Bad excuses are worse than none."
by Thomas Fuller
"Change of weather is the discourse of fools."
by Thomas Fuller
"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
by Thomas Fuller
"If you have one true friend you have more than your share."
by Thomas Fuller
"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
by Thomas Fuller
"Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections."
by Thomas Fuller
"Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak."
by Thomas Fuller
"Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love."
by Thomas Fuller
"Poor men's reasons are not heard."
by Thomas Fuller
"Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves."
by Thomas Fuller
"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."
by Thomas Fuller
"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."
by Thomas Fuller
"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
by Thomas Fuller
"Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm."
by Thomas Fuller
"A good friend is my nearest relation."
by Thomas Fuller
"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"
by Thomas Fuller
"All doors open to courtesy."
by Thomas Fuller
"Better a tooth out than always aching."
by Thomas Fuller
"He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it."
by Thomas Fuller
"He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil."
by Thomas Fuller
"Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune."
by Dr. Thomas Fuller
"Health is not valued till sickness comes."
by Dr. Thomas Fuller
"Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him."
by Dr. Thomas Fuller
"Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart."
by Thomas Fuller
"All things are difficult before they are easy."
by Dr. Thomas Fuller
"We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity."
by Thomas Fuller
"'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship."
by Thomas Fuller
"'Tis not every question that deserves an answer."
by Thomas Fuller
"'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it."
by Thomas Fuller
"A book that is shut is but a block."
by Thomas Fuller
"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."
by Thomas Fuller
"A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time."
by Thomas Fuller
"A good horse should be seldom spurred."
by Thomas Fuller
"A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial."
by Thomas Fuller
"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him"
by Thomas Fuller
"A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife."
by Thomas Fuller
"A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be."
by Thomas Fuller
"A wise man turns chance into good fortune."
by Thomas Fuller
"A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools."
by Thomas Fuller
"Abused patience turns to fury."
by Thomas Fuller
"Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves"
by Thomas Fuller
"All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer."
by Thomas Fuller
"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."
by Thomas Fuller
"Anger is one of the sinners of the soul."
by Thomas Fuller
"Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too."
by Thomas Fuller
"Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise."
by Thomas Fuller
"Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money."
by Thomas Fuller
"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after."
by Thomas Fuller
"Better hazard once than always be in fear."
by Thomas Fuller
"Better break your word than do worse in keeping it."
by Thomas Fuller
"Better be alone than in bad company."
by Thomas Fuller
"Care and diligence bring luck."
by Thomas Fuller
"Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye."
by Thomas Fuller
"Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them."
by Thomas Fuller
"Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire."
by Thomas Fuller
"Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear."
by Thomas Fuller
"Despair gives courage to a coward."
by Thomas Fuller
"Do as most do, and men will speak well of you."
by Thomas Fuller
"Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas"
by Thomas Fuller
"Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers."
by Thomas Fuller
"Eaten bread is forgotten."
by Thomas Fuller
"Enquire not what boils in another's pot."
by Thomas Fuller
"Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest."
by 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."
by Thomas Fuller
"First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife."
by Thomas Fuller
"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong."
by Dr. 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."
by Thomas Fuller
"Great hopes make great men."
by Thomas Fuller
"He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first."
by Thomas Fuller
"He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief."
by Thomas Fuller
"He does not believe who does not live according to his belief."
by Thomas Fuller
"He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion."
by Thomas Fuller
"He that hopes no good fears no ill."
by Thomas Fuller
"He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none."
by Thomas Fuller
"He that fears your presence will hate you absence."
by Thomas Fuller
"He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows."
by Thomas Fuller
"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."
by Thomas Fuller
"He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea."
by Thomas Fuller
"He that travels much knows much."
by Thomas Fuller
"He that spares the bad injures the good"
by Thomas Fuller
"He that plants trees loves others beside himself."
by Dr. Thomas Fuller
"He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back."
by Thomas Fuller
"If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse."
by Thomas Fuller
"If it were not for hope, the heart would break."
by Thomas Fuller
"If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf."
by Thomas Fuller
"If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf."
by Thomas Fuller


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