Thomas Fuller Quotes & Sayings

get the facts or the facts will get you. — Thomas Fuller

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs. — Thomas Fuller

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. — Thomas Fuller

Great hopes make great men. — Thomas Fuller

If thou wouldst please the ladies, thou must endeavor to make them pleased with themselves. — Thomas Fuller

If any one giveth thee excessive Praises more than can handsomely belong to thee, thou art to think of him, that he taketh thee for vain and credulous, and easy to be deceived, and effectually a Fool. — Thomas Fuller

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm. — Thomas Fuller

... the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks. — Thomas Fuller

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. — Thomas Fuller

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. — Thomas Fuller

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. — Thomas Fuller

Custom is the Guide of the Ignorant. — Thomas Fuller

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician. — Thomas Fuller

Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all. — Thomas Fuller

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf — Thomas Fuller

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest. — Thomas Fuller

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. — Thomas Fuller

Scalded cats fear even cold water. — Thomas Fuller

Better a tooth out than always aching. — Thomas Fuller

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. — Thomas Fuller

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame. — Thomas Fuller

A wise man turns chance into good fortune. — Thomas Fuller

Abused patience turns to fury. — Thomas Fuller

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

You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter. — Thomas Fuller

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. — Thomas Fuller

Bad excuses are worse than none. — Thomas Fuller

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse. — Thomas Fuller

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. — Thomas Fuller

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them. — Thomas Fuller

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. — Thomas Fuller

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing. — Thomas Fuller

Change of weather is the discourse of fools. — Thomas Fuller

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. — Thomas Fuller

Despair gives courage to a coward. — Thomas Fuller

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. — Thomas Fuller

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. — Thomas Fuller

Charity begins at home, but should not end there. — Thomas Fuller

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. — Thomas Fuller

He that hopes no good fears no ill. — Thomas Fuller

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows. — Thomas Fuller

Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. — Thomas Fuller

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil. — Thomas Fuller

It is the property of fools to be always judging. — Thomas Fuller

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword. — Thomas Fuller

He that travels much knows much. — Thomas Fuller

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time. — Thomas Fuller

A forced kindness deserves no thanks — Thomas Fuller

If you have one true friend, you have more than your share. — Thomas Fuller

Good is not good, where better is expected — Thomas Fuller

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much. — Thomas Fuller

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves. — Thomas Fuller

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife. — Thomas Fuller

It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn. — Thomas Fuller

Old foxes want no tutors. — Thomas Fuller

A good friend is my nearest relation. — Thomas Fuller

Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men. — Thomas Fuller

All doors open to courtesy. — Thomas Fuller

He that plants trees loves others besides himself. — Thomas Fuller

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness. — Thomas Fuller

Better be alone than in bad company. — Thomas Fuller

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. — Thomas Fuller

Health is not valued till sickness comes. — Thomas Fuller

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship — Thomas Fuller

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. — Thomas Fuller

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. — Thomas Fuller

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back. — Thomas Fuller

Eaten bread is forgotten. — Thomas Fuller

Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after. — Thomas Fuller

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

Danger past, God is forgotten. — Thomas Fuller

The noblest revenge is to forgive — Thomas Fuller

A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library. — Thomas Fuller

A man is not good or bad for one action. — Thomas Fuller

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings. — Thomas Fuller

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. — Thomas Fuller

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it. — Thomas Fuller

Be the business never so painful you may have done it for money — Thomas Fuller

With foxes we must play the fox. — Thomas Fuller

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery. — Thomas Fuller

The fool wanders, a wise man travels. — Thomas Fuller

Always tell the Truth : where it is not loved, it is respected and feared. — Thomas Fuller

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. — Thomas Fuller

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. — Thomas Fuller

The Way to think we have enough, is not to desire to have too much. — Thomas Fuller

Health is just not valued until illness comes. — Thomas Fuller

A good horse should be seldom spurred. — Thomas Fuller

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. — Thomas Fuller

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. — Thomas Fuller

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. — Thomas Fuller

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. — Thomas Fuller

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers. — Thomas Fuller

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery. — Thomas Fuller

Pride will spit in pride's face. — Thomas Fuller

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him. — Thomas Fuller

A good garden may have some weeds. — Thomas Fuller

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none. — Thomas Fuller

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

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. — Thomas Fuller

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak. — Thomas Fuller