Quotes by Thomas Fuller

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

"Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks."

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

"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light."

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

"A good garden may have some weeds."

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

"Great hopes make great men."

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

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

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

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

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

"Health is not valued till sickness comes."

"He that hopes no good fears no ill."

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

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

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

"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul."

"All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer."

"Abused patience turns to fury."

"'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship."

"Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers."

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

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."

"The more wit the less courage."

"Despair gives courage to a coward."

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

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

"All things are difficult before they are easy."

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

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

"Better be alone than in bad company."

"Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear."

"Scalded cats fear even cold water."

"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."

"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."

"Change of weather is the discourse of fools."

"If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully."

"In fair weather prepare for foul."

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

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

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

"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."

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

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

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