Quotes By Thomas Fuller

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Care and diligence bring luck.

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

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.

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

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

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

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

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

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

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

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Better be alone than in bad company.

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.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

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

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

Abused patience turns to fury.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.