All Thomas Fuller Quotes
- He injures a fair lady that beholds her not Beholds
- Better lose a jest than a friend Better
- Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity… All
- Praise makes good men better and bad men worse Bad
- Pride had rather out of the way than go behind Behind
- Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. Comparison
- Security is the mother of danger and the grandmother of destruction. Danger
- Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his… Class
- Enquire not what boils in another's pot Boils
- When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both… Become Guilty
- Act nothing in a furioous passion; it's putting to sea in a storm. Act
- No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself. Knowing
- He lives long that lives well, and time misspent is not lived, but lost. Lived
- Great hopes make great men. --Thomas Fuller 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 Breaks
- He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. Beggars
- Jars concealed are half reconciled; but if generally known, it is a double task to stop the breach at home and men's mouths abroad. Abroad
- There is mention of a sword turning every way: parallel whereto is the Word of God in a wounded conscience. Man's heart is full of… Agony
- He that plants trees loves others beside himself. Beside
- Money is the sinew of love as well as war. Love