Thomas Fuller Quotes

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

The noblest revenge is to forgive

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

Good is not good, where better is expected

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.

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

With foxes we must play the fox.

Good clothes open all doors.

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.

A good garden may have some weeds.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

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

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

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

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Great hopes make great men.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Better be alone than in bad company.

A book that is shut is but a block.

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

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

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

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

Bad excuses are worse than none

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

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

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

Birth is the beginning of death

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

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

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

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

He that fears you present will hate you absent.

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

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

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

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

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

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

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

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

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

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

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