Christian Quote by Thomas Fuller

Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.

— Anonymous

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a…

— Anonymous

“He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be…

— Charles Dickens

A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

— Oscar Wilde

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

— Douglas William Jerrold

“For himself, he grew desperate; his sorrow was of the king that will not lament, he neither wept nor prayed - he cursed and…

— Emily Brontë

He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.

— Karl G. Maeser

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave…

— George Savile

He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever.

— John Tillotson

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion…

— Edmund Burke