Quotes By Thomas Fuller

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

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

'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.

All doors open to courtesy.

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.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

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

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

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

A book that is shut is but a block.

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.

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.

Old foxes want no tutors.