Thomas Fuller Quotes

Most popular Thomas Fuller Quotes

Truth fears no trial. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Truth fears no trial.
— Thomas Fuller
From saving comes having. - Thomas Fuller quote.
From saving comes having.
— Thomas Fuller
Eaten bread is forgotten. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Eaten bread is forgotten.
— Thomas Fuller
Error is always in Haste. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Error is always in Haste.
— Thomas Fuller

error proverbs

Debt is the worst poverty. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Debt is the worst poverty.
— Thomas Fuller

credit

All doors open to courtesy. - Thomas Fuller quote.
All doors open to courtesy.
— Thomas Fuller

politeness

Labor overcometh all things. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Labor overcometh all things.
— Thomas Fuller
Give as thou wouldest receive. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Give as thou wouldest receive.

golden rules

Care and diligence bring luck. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Care and diligence bring luck.

luck

A man surprised is half beaten. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A man surprised is half beaten.
— Thomas Fuller

competition

Soft words make hard arguments. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Soft words make hard arguments.
— Thomas Fuller

arguments

The rich never want for kindred. - Thomas Fuller quote.
The rich never want for kindred.
— Thomas Fuller

wealth proverbs

He who travels much, knows much. - Thomas Fuller quote.
He who travels much, knows much.
— Thomas Fuller
A man is rich that is satisfied. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A man is rich that is satisfied.
— Thomas Fuller
Nothing sharpens sight like envy. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Nothing sharpens sight like envy.
— Thomas Fuller

envy

Time and words can't be recalled. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Time and words can't be recalled.
— Thomas Fuller
The more laws the more offenders. - Thomas Fuller quote.
The more laws the more offenders.
— Thomas Fuller

law

Willful waste brings woeful want. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Willful waste brings woeful want.
— Thomas Fuller Wanting
Good words cost no more than bad. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Good words cost no more than bad.
— Thomas Fuller

kindness

A good example is the best sermon. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A good example is the best sermon.
— Thomas Fuller

example proverbs

Necessity dispenseth with decorum. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
— Thomas Fuller
Manners and Money make a Gentleman. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Manners and Money make a Gentleman.
— Thomas Fuller

proverbs gentleman

A book that is shut is but a block. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A book that is shut is but a block.
— Thomas Fuller

reading

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
— Thomas Fuller

proverbs misfortune

Associate with men of good judgment. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Associate with men of good judgment.
— Thomas Fuller
A friend to all is a friend to none. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Thomas Fuller

friendship

A man of courage never wants weapons. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A man of courage never wants weapons.
— Thomas Fuller
From fame to infamy is a beaten road. - Thomas Fuller quote.
From fame to infamy is a beaten road.
— Thomas Fuller

proverbs

The last drop makes the cup run over. - Thomas Fuller quote.
The last drop makes the cup run over.
— Thomas Fuller
Wisdom rises upon the ruins of folly. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Wisdom rises upon the ruins of folly.
— Thomas Fuller
A good conscience is the best divinity - Thomas Fuller quote.
A good conscience is the best divinity
— Thomas Fuller
A good horse should be seldom spurred. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A good horse should be seldom spurred.
— Thomas Fuller
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

anger

Great and good are seldom the same man. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
— Thomas Fuller
Praises from an enemy imply real merit. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Praises from an enemy imply real merit.
— Thomas Fuller

praise enemies merit proverbs

Self-preservation is nature's first law. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Self-preservation is nature's first law.
— Thomas Fuller

self-interest

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

admiration

Cheat me in the price but not the goods. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Cheat me in the price but not the goods.
— Thomas Fuller
Fish and guests smell at three days old. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Fish and guests smell at three days old.
— Thomas Fuller

guests proverbs

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.
— Thomas Fuller
Sickness is felt, but health not at all. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Sickness is felt, but health not at all.
— Thomas Fuller

health illness proverbs

What a day may bring a day may take away. - Thomas Fuller quote.
What a day may bring a day may take away.
— Thomas Fuller
Drown not thyself to save a drowning man. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Drown not thyself to save a drowning man.
— Thomas Fuller
Sacrifice not thy heart upon every altar. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Sacrifice not thy heart upon every altar.
— Thomas Fuller
Good is not good when better is expected. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Good is not good when better is expected.
— Thomas Fuller

quality

Health is not valued till sickness comes. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
— Thomas Fuller

health

We have all forgot more than we remember. - Thomas Fuller quote.
We have all forgot more than we remember.
— Thomas Fuller
A good friend is my nearest relationship. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A good friend is my nearest relationship.
— Thomas Fuller
Silence is wisdom, when speaking is folly. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Silence is wisdom, when speaking is folly.
— Thomas Fuller
A wise man turns chance into good fortune. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
— Thomas Fuller

wisdom fortune

Not possession but use is the only riches. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Not possession but use is the only riches.
— Thomas Fuller
An old dog can't alter his way of barking. - Thomas Fuller quote.
An old dog can't alter his way of barking.
— Thomas Fuller
Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.
— Thomas Fuller

law

One that sips of many arts drinks of none. - Thomas Fuller quote.
One that sips of many arts drinks of none.
— Thomas Fuller
Charity begins, but doth not end, at home. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Charity begins, but doth not end, at home.

charity

Nothing costs so much as what is given us. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Nothing costs so much as what is given us.
— Thomas Fuller
Old custom without truth is but old error. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Old custom without truth is but old error.
— Thomas Fuller
A man who promises too much means nothing. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A man who promises too much means nothing.
— Thomas Fuller
Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.
— Thomas Fuller
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
— Thomas Fuller

addiction drinking

Be silent or speak something worth hearing. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Be silent or speak something worth hearing.
— Thomas Fuller

silence

Friendships multiply joys and divide grief. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Friendships multiply joys and divide grief.
— Thomas Fuller

friendship

The greater the man, the greater the crime. - Thomas Fuller quote.
The greater the man, the greater the crime.
— Thomas Fuller

greatness

Honey is the best bait to fish for man with. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Honey is the best bait to fish for man with.
— Thomas Fuller

money

Reputation is commonly measur'd by the Acre. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Reputation is commonly measur'd by the Acre.
— Thomas Fuller

reputation proverbs

Riches serve a wise man, but command a fool. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Riches serve a wise man, but command a fool.
— Thomas Fuller
Seeing is believing, but feelings the truth. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Seeing is believing, but feelings the truth.
— Thomas Fuller
Learning makes a man fit company for himself. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
— Thomas Fuller
Few there are that will endure a true friend. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Few there are that will endure a true friend.
— Thomas Fuller
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
— Thomas Fuller

zeal proverbs

Envy shooteth at others and woundeth herself. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Envy shooteth at others and woundeth herself.
— Thomas Fuller

proverbs envy

Every age confutes old errors and begets new. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Every age confutes old errors and begets new.
— Thomas Fuller
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship. - Thomas Fuller quote.
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
— Thomas Fuller
Virtue's paths are first rugged, then pleasant. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Virtue's paths are first rugged, then pleasant.
— Thomas Fuller

virtue proverbs

An evil conscience breaks many a men's neck.  . - Thomas Fuller quote.
An evil conscience breaks many a men's neck.  .
— Thomas Fuller
A guilty conscience never thinketh itself safe. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A guilty conscience never thinketh itself safe.
— Thomas Fuller
Praise makes good men better and bad men worse. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Praise makes good men better and bad men worse.
— Thomas Fuller
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
— Thomas Fuller
Much would have more, but often meets with less. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Much would have more, but often meets with less.
— Thomas Fuller Wanting
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
— Thomas Fuller

men

Men of business must not break their word twice. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Men of business must not break their word twice.
— Thomas Fuller

business

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. - Thomas Fuller quote.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
— Thomas Fuller

proverbs hope

Vice often rides triumphant in virtue's chariot. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Vice often rides triumphant in virtue's chariot.
— Thomas Fuller

vice & virtue proverbs

If pains be a pleasure to you profit will follow. - Thomas Fuller quote.
If pains be a pleasure to you profit will follow.
— Thomas Fuller
Help me to money and I'll help myself to friends. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Help me to money and I'll help myself to friends.
— Thomas Fuller
Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.
— Thomas Fuller
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
— Thomas Fuller

public opinion

A proverb is much matter decocted into few words. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A proverb is much matter decocted into few words.

proverbs

He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first. - Thomas Fuller quote.
He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.
— Thomas Fuller
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. - Thomas Fuller quote.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
— Thomas Fuller

peace

At the gate which suspicion enters, love goes out. - Thomas Fuller quote.
At the gate which suspicion enters, love goes out.
— Thomas Fuller

proverbs love suspicion

Vice would be frightful if it did not wear a mask. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Vice would be frightful if it did not wear a mask.
— Thomas Fuller

vice proverbs

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
— Thomas Fuller
Better break your word than do worse by keeping it. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Better break your word than do worse by keeping it.
— Thomas Fuller
He is not fit for riches who is afraid to use them. - Thomas Fuller quote.
He is not fit for riches who is afraid to use them.
— Thomas Fuller

wealth

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.
— Thomas Fuller
He that fears not the future may enjoy the present. - Thomas Fuller quote.
He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
— Thomas Fuller

future

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands. - Thomas Fuller quote.
One good head is better than a hundred strong hands.
— Thomas Fuller

intelligence

One who returns a good for evil obtains the victory. - Thomas Fuller quote.
One who returns a good for evil obtains the victory.
— Thomas Fuller
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

gift

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise. - Thomas Fuller quote.
He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
— Thomas Fuller

happiness

No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself. - Thomas Fuller quote.
No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself.
— Thomas Fuller
Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
— Thomas Fuller
A day to come shows longer than a year's that's gone. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A day to come shows longer than a year's that's gone.
— Thomas Fuller
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame. - Thomas Fuller quote.
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
— Thomas Fuller

praise

A man may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A man may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
— Thomas Fuller
Never forget what a man says to you while he is angry. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Never forget what a man says to you while he is angry.
— Thomas Fuller

anger

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. - Thomas Fuller quote.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
— Thomas Fuller

environment

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
— Thomas Fuller
A man is not fit for riches who is afraid to use them. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A man is not fit for riches who is afraid to use them.
— Thomas Fuller
Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little.
— Thomas Fuller
A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
— Thomas Fuller
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
— Thomas Fuller

ability cynical

One who does not fear the future may enjoy the present. - Thomas Fuller quote.
One who does not fear the future may enjoy the present.
— Thomas Fuller
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved. - Thomas Fuller quote.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
— Thomas Fuller
'Tis in vain to speak reason where it will not be heard. - Thomas Fuller quote.
'Tis in vain to speak reason where it will not be heard.
— Thomas Fuller
They are my friend who speaks well of me behind my back. - Thomas Fuller quote.
They are my friend who speaks well of me behind my back.
— Thomas Fuller
That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. - Thomas Fuller quote.
That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
— Thomas Fuller
Hope is the only tie which keeps the heart from breaking. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Hope is the only tie which keeps the heart from breaking.
— Thomas Fuller
Rich men feel misfortunes that fly over poor men's heads. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Rich men feel misfortunes that fly over poor men's heads.
— Thomas Fuller

misfortune proverbs

It is a worthier thing to deserve honor than to possess it. - Thomas Fuller quote.
It is a worthier thing to deserve honor than to possess it.
— Thomas Fuller
Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thing. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thing.
— Thomas Fuller
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. - Thomas Fuller quote.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
— Thomas Fuller Elbert Hubbard’s Scrap Book

knowledge

Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools.
— Thomas Fuller

proverbs foolishness

Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.
— Thomas Fuller
Let me gain by you, and no matter whether you love me or not. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Let me gain by you, and no matter whether you love me or not.
— Thomas Fuller

wealth

Distrust is the mother of safety, but must keep out of sight. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Distrust is the mother of safety, but must keep out of sight.
— Thomas Fuller
Religion is the best Armor in the World, but the worst Cloak. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Religion is the best Armor in the World, but the worst Cloak.
— Thomas Fuller

religion proverbs

Men do not believe that do not live according to their belief. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Men do not believe that do not live according to their belief.
— Thomas Fuller
Prosperity has damned more Souls than all the Devils together. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Prosperity has damned more Souls than all the Devils together.
— Thomas Fuller

prosperity proverbs

One that would know what shall be must consider what hath been. - Thomas Fuller quote.
One that would know what shall be must consider what hath been.
— Thomas Fuller
A man that will not be merciful to his beast is a beast himself. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A man that will not be merciful to his beast is a beast himself.
— Thomas Fuller
There is not a wise man that cannot play the fool upon occasion. - Thomas Fuller quote.
There is not a wise man that cannot play the fool upon occasion.
— Thomas Fuller
'Tis not knowing much, but what is useful, that makes a man wise. - Thomas Fuller quote.
'Tis not knowing much, but what is useful, that makes a man wise.
— Thomas Fuller
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

architecture

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
— Thomas Fuller

courage

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
— Thomas Fuller Worthies of England: Musicians

music

If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. - Thomas Fuller quote.
If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
— Thomas Fuller

proverbs enemies

The harvest and vintage come not every day, therefore be provident. - Thomas Fuller quote.
The harvest and vintage come not every day, therefore be provident.
— Thomas Fuller
To make a trade of laughing at a fool, is the highway to become one. - Thomas Fuller quote.
To make a trade of laughing at a fool, is the highway to become one.
— Thomas Fuller

Fools

We shall never have friends, if we expect to find them without fault. - Thomas Fuller quote.
We shall never have friends, if we expect to find them without fault.
— Thomas Fuller
That is the bitterness of a gift, that it deprives us of our liberty. - Thomas Fuller quote.
That is the bitterness of a gift, that it deprives us of our liberty.

gift

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
— Thomas Fuller
He lives long that lives well, and time misspent is not lived, but lost. - Thomas Fuller quote.
He lives long that lives well, and time misspent is not lived, but lost.
— Thomas Fuller
That is but a slippery Happiness which Fortune can give and can take away. - Thomas Fuller quote.
That is but a slippery Happiness which Fortune can give and can take away.

happiness

When thy hand hath done a good act, ask thy heart whether it was well done. - Thomas Fuller quote.
When thy hand hath done a good act, ask thy heart whether it was well done.
— Thomas Fuller
A man that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A man that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing.
— Thomas Fuller
Jesting is not unlawful if it trespasseth not in quantity, quality, or reason. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Jesting is not unlawful if it trespasseth not in quantity, quality, or reason.
— Thomas Fuller
Contentment consisteth not in heaping more fuel, but in taking away some fire. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Contentment consisteth not in heaping more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
— Thomas Fuller
If thou wouldst keep money, save money; If thou wouldst reap money, sow money. - Thomas Fuller quote.
If thou wouldst keep money, save money; If thou wouldst reap money, sow money.
— Thomas Fuller
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues.
— Thomas Fuller
He is a good time-server that finds out the fittest opportunity of every action. - Thomas Fuller quote.
He is a good time-server that finds out the fittest opportunity of every action.
— Thomas Fuller
Wit should be used as a shield for defense rather than as a sword to wound others. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Wit should be used as a shield for defense rather than as a sword to wound others.
— Thomas Fuller
A man's purse will never be bare, if he knows when to buy, to spend, and to spare. - Thomas Fuller quote.
A man's purse will never be bare, if he knows when to buy, to spend, and to spare.
— Thomas Fuller
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
— Thomas Fuller
It is best to live as friends with those in time with whom we would be to all eternity. - Thomas Fuller quote.
It is best to live as friends with those in time with whom we would be to all eternity.
— Thomas Fuller
Riches are like muck, which stink in a heap, but spread abroad, make the earth fruitful. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Riches are like muck, which stink in a heap, but spread abroad, make the earth fruitful.
— Thomas Fuller
He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. - Thomas Fuller quote.
He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.
— Thomas Fuller

family

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician. - Thomas Fuller quote.
He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
— Thomas Fuller
That is the best charity which so relieves another man's poverty it still continues his industry. - Thomas Fuller quote.
That is the best charity which so relieves another man's poverty it still continues his industry.
— Thomas Fuller
If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you. - Thomas Fuller quote.
If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
— Thomas Fuller
When a judge puts on his robes, he puts off his relations to any, and, like Melchisedech, becomes without pedigree. - Thomas Fuller quote.
When a judge puts on his robes, he puts off his relations to any, and, like Melchisedech, becomes without pedigree.
— Thomas Fuller

courts

Ethics make one's soul mannerly and wise, but logic is the armory of reason, furnished with all offensive and defensive weapons. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Ethics make one's soul mannerly and wise, but logic is the armory of reason, furnished with all offensive and defensive weapons.
— Thomas Fuller
Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
— Thomas Fuller

leadership