Thomas Fuller Quotes (229 Quotes)

Of Edward Grindall Worldly wealth he cared not for, desiring only to make both ends meet.

He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.

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

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Prospect is often better than possession.

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

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

He that would have fruit must climb the tree.

My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.

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

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fools names, like fools faces, Are often seen in public places.

The more wit the less courage.

Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Trust not in him that seems a saint.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

He that travels much knows much.

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

He is rich that is satisfied.

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

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

A man is not good or bad for one action.

Nature hath appointed twilight as a bridge to pass us out of day into night.

The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

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

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.

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

All the world will beat the man whom fortune buffets

A slip of the foot may be soon recovered but that of the tongue perhaps never.

A book that is shut is but a block.

A man surprised is half beaten.

The devil himself is good when he is pleased.

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.

A generous confession disarms slander.

Those who are surly and imperious to their inferiors are generally humble, flattering and cringing to their superiors.

When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty first but if the strife continue long, both commonly Become guilty.

Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Purchase not friends by gifts when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Better break your word than do worse by keeping it

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

He lives long that lives well, and time misspent is not lived, but lost.

It is best to live as friends with those in time with whom we would be to all eternity.