Quotes By Thomas Fuller

With foxes we must play the fox.

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

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

The more wit the less courage.

Great hopes make great men.

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

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

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.

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

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

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

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

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

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

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

Care and diligence bring luck.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

A man is not good or bad for one action.

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

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

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

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.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

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

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.