Thomas Fuller quotes

“Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.”

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

“Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.”

— Thomas Fuller

“All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.”

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

“With foxes we must play the fox.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Despair gives courage to a coward.”

— Thomas Fuller

“All doors open to courtesy.”

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

“Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.”

— Thomas Fuller

“There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.”

— Thomas Fuller

“It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.”

— Thomas Fuller

“There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Better be alone than in bad company.”

— 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

“A good horse should be seldom spurred.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Better a tooth out than always aching.”

— 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

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

— Thomas Fuller

“A wise man turns chance into good fortune.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.”

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

“Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.”

— Thomas Fuller

“A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.”

— Thomas Fuller