Thomas Fuller – 47 Quotes

47 Quotes by Thomas Fuller

Great hopes make great men.

– Thomas Fuller

Abused patience turns to fury.

– Thomas Fuller

The more wit the less courage.

– Thomas Fuller

In fair weather prepare for foul.

– Thomas Fuller

A good garden may have some weeds.

– Thomas Fuller

Despair gives courage to a coward.

– Thomas Fuller

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

– Thomas Fuller

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

– Thomas Fuller

Better be alone than in bad company.

– Thomas Fuller

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

– Thomas Fuller

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

– Thomas Fuller

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

– Thomas Fuller

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

– Thomas Fuller

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

– Thomas Fuller

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

– Thomas Fuller

All things are difficult before they are easy.

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Thomas Fuller

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

– Thomas Fuller

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Thomas Fuller

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Thomas Fuller

Cruelty is a tyrant that’s always attended with fear.

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Thomas Fuller

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Thomas Fuller

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Thomas Fuller

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Thomas Fuller

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

– Thomas Fuller

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

– Thomas Fuller

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.

– Thomas Fuller

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

– Thomas Fuller

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.

– Thomas Fuller

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.

– Thomas Fuller