Thomas Fuller quotes

“Old foxes want no tutors.”

— Thomas Fuller

“The more wit the less courage.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.”

— Thomas Fuller

“A book that is shut is but a block.”

— Thomas Fuller

“A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.”

— Thomas Fuller

“First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.”

— Thomas Fuller

“He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.”

— Thomas Fuller

“He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.”

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

“Poor men's reasons are not heard.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.”

— Thomas Fuller

“The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.”

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

“'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.”

— Thomas Fuller

“'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Today is yesterday's pupil.”

— Thomas Fuller

“We have all forgot more than we remember.”

— 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

“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.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.”

— Thomas Fuller