Quotes By Thomas Fuller

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

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Better a tooth out than always aching.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

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

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Eaten bread is forgotten.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.