Thomas Fuller Quotes
- Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.
- There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
- Bad excuses are worse than none.
- One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
- A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
- Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
- Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.
- Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
- He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- A good friend is my nearest relation.
- An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
- Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
- Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
- All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
- Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
- With foxes we must play the fox.
- Despair gives courage to a coward.
- A good horse should be seldom spurred.
- All doors open to courtesy.
- If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.