Thomas Fuller Quotes

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

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

Great hopes make great men.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

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

He that travels much knows much.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

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

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

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

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

All doors open to courtesy.

A book that is shut is but a block.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

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

A good garden may have some weeds.

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

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

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

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

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

We have all forgot more than we remember.

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

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

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.

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

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.

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

Eaten bread is forgotten.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

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

Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

Better a tooth out than always aching.

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

The more wit the less courage.

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

The worse the passage the more welcome the port.