Thomas Fuller Quotes

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

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

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

We have all forgot more than we remember.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

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

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

It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.

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

Eaten bread is forgotten.

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

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

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

Better a tooth out than always aching.

The noblest revenge is to forgive

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

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

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

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

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.

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.

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

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

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

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

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

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

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

The more wit the less courage.

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.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox".

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

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

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.

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