Words matter. These are the best Thomas Fuller Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
He that travels much knows much.
Don’t let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Eaten bread is forgotten.
Old foxes want no tutors.
‘Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
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.
A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Better a tooth out than always aching.
Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
All doors open to courtesy.
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
‘Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
He’s my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
In fair weather prepare for foul.
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
With devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Today is yesterday’s pupil.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell!
The more wit the less courage.
Bad excuses are worse than none.
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
A good horse should be seldom spurred.
A book that is shut is but a block.
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
The devil lies brooding in the miser’s chest.
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
A man is not good or bad for one action.
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
Pride will spit in pride’s face.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Great is the difference betwixt a man’s being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Cruelty is a tyrant that’s always attended with fear.
