Quotes By Thomas Fuller

Better a tooth out than always aching.

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

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

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

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

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

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

Eaten bread is forgotten.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

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

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

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

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

A good friend is my nearest relation.

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

All doors open to courtesy.

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

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

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

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

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

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

A book that is shut is but a block.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

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