Quotes By Thomas Fuller

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

He that travels much knows much.

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

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

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

Bad excuses are worse than none.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

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

A good garden may have some weeds.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Old foxes want no tutors.

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.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Great hopes make great men.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

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

With foxes we must play the fox.

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

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

The more wit the less courage.

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

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

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

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