Thomas Fuller

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

— Thomas Fuller

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

— Thomas Fuller

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

— Thomas Fuller

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty.

— Thomas Fuller

Soft words are hard arguments.

— Thomas Fuller

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .

— Thomas Fuller

Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.

— Thomas Fuller

A book that is shut is but a block.

— Thomas Fuller

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

— Thomas Fuller

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

— Thomas Fuller

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

— Thomas Fuller

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.

— Thomas Fuller

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

— Thomas Fuller

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

The more wit the less courage.

— Thomas Fuller

All doors open to courtesy.

— Thomas Fuller

Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.

— Thomas Fuller

With foxes we must play the fox.

— Thomas Fuller

Debt is the worst poverty.

— Thomas Fuller

Despair gives courage to a coward.

— Thomas Fuller

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

Good clothes open all doors.

— Thomas Fuller

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.

— Thomas Fuller

Nothing sharpens sight like envy.

— Thomas Fuller

He teaches me to be good that does me good.

— Thomas Fuller

Bad excuses are worse than none.

— Thomas Fuller

Good is not good, when better is expected.

— Thomas Fuller

Prospect is often better than possession.

— Thomas Fuller

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

— Thomas Fuller

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.

— Thomas Fuller

A good garden may have some weeds.

— Thomas Fuller

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

A good friend is my nearest relation.

— Thomas Fuller

Lavishness is not generosity.

— Thomas Fuller

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

— Thomas Fuller

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

— Thomas Fuller

The devil himself is good when he is pleased.

— Thomas Fuller

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

— Thomas Fuller

Eaten bread is soon forgotten.

— Thomas Fuller

Great and good are seldom the same man.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

— Thomas Fuller

Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven.

— Thomas Fuller

Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.

— Thomas Fuller

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

A man is not good or bad for one action.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

— Thomas Fuller

The more laws, the more offenders.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

Old foxes want no tutors.

— Thomas Fuller

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.

— Thomas Fuller

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

— Thomas Fuller

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

— Thomas Fuller

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.

— Thomas Fuller

Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

— Thomas Fuller

We have all forgot more than we remember.

— Thomas Fuller

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

— Thomas Fuller

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

— Thomas Fuller

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

— Thomas Fuller

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

Today is yesterday's pupil.

— Thomas Fuller

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

— Thomas Fuller

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

— Thomas Fuller

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

— Thomas Fuller

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

— Thomas Fuller

He is rich that is satisfied.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

A generous confession disarms slander.

— Thomas Fuller

A man surprised is half beaten.

— Thomas Fuller

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse

— Thomas Fuller

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

— Thomas Fuller

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

— Thomas Fuller

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

— Thomas Fuller

Virtue is the only true nobility.

— Thomas Fuller

Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.

— Thomas Fuller