Thomas Fuller

Great hopes make great men.

— Thomas Fuller

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

— Thomas Fuller

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

— Thomas Fuller

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

Though blood be the best sauce for victory, yet must it not be more than the meat.

— Thomas Fuller

Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.

— Thomas Fuller

He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.

— Thomas Fuller

Thus, as it is always darkest just before the day dawneth, so God useth to visit His servants with greatest afflictions when he intendeth their speedy advancement.

— Thomas Fuller

Miracles are the swaddling-clothes of infant churches.

— Thomas Fuller

By the same proportion that a penny saved is a penny gained, the preserver of books is a Mate for the Compiler of them.

— Thomas Fuller

Many favors which God giveth us ravel out for want of hemming, through our own unthankfulness; for though prayer purchaseth blessings, giving praise doth keep the quiet possession of them.

— Thomas Fuller

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.

— Thomas Fuller

She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him.

— Thomas Fuller

One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

Deceive not thyself by overexpecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs.

— Thomas Fuller

They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.

— Thomas Fuller

Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.

— Thomas Fuller

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

— Thomas Fuller

He will make a strange combustion in the state of his soul, who at the landing of every cockboat sets the beacons on fire.

— Thomas Fuller

Some men, like a tiled house, are long before they take fire, but once on flame there is no coming near to quench them.

— Thomas Fuller

Do not in an instant what an age cannot recompense.

— Thomas Fuller

Heat of passion makes our souls to chap, and the devil creeps in at the crannies.

— Thomas Fuller

Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. Oh 't is cruelty to beat a cripple with his own crutches.

— Thomas Fuller

In fair weather prepare for foul.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

Great hopes make great men.

— Thomas Fuller

A good garden may have some weeds.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

Care and diligence bring luck.

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Thomas Fuller

Great hopes make great men.

— Thomas Fuller

Better be alone than in bad company.

— Thomas Fuller

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

— Thomas Fuller