Thomas Fuller Quotes

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.

If you run after two hares you will catch neither.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

Charity begins at home but should not end there.

He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing.

If it were not for hopes the heart would break.

Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.

He is idle that might be better employed.

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Be you never so high the law is above you.

Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.

Love the itch and a cough cannot be hid.

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

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.

The image of God cut in ebony.

We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.

What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.

Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.

Comparison more than reality makes men happy or wretched.

Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.

A danger foreseen is half avoided.

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth.

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

Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

None can pray well but he that lives well.

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.

Prospect is often better than possession.

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.

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

He that would have fruit must climb the tree.

"They say so" is half a lie.

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

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