Top 132 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas Fuller - Page 2

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Last updated on December 4, 2024.

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

Thomas Fuller

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

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

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

Thomas Fuller

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

Thomas Fuller

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.

Thomas Fuller

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

Thomas Fuller

The more wit the less courage.

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

Thomas Fuller

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Thomas Fuller

A book that is shut is but a block.

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

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

Old foxes want no tutors.

Thomas Fuller

Better be alone than in bad company.

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A good horse should be seldom spurred.

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A man is not good or bad for one action.

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

Thomas Fuller

Bad excuses are worse than none.

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Thomas Fuller

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Thomas Fuller

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Thomas Fuller

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Thomas Fuller

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

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

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

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

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

Thomas Fuller

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

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.

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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

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

Thomas Fuller