Quotes By Thomas Fuller

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.

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.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

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

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.