Thomas Fuller Quotes - Page 2

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.

Charity begins at home but should not end there.

What a day may bring a day may take away.

A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

What a day may bring a day may take away.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.

The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.

He that would have fruit must climb the tree.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.

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

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.

Pride perceiving humility honourable often borrows her cloak.

Be a friend to thyself and others will be so too.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Good is not good where better is expected.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.

Good is not good, where better is expected.

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

A good life fears not life nor death.

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

We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.

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

If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add not therefore sauce to sauce. ... Pastime like wine is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head which hath lain fallow all night with some serious work.

He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.

Tender-handed stroke a nettle and it stings you for your pains Grasp it like a man of mettle and it soft as silk remains.

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

Comparison more than reality makes men happy or wretched.

Sudden acquaintance brings repentance.

There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.

They are rich who have true friends.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.

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

Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

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

Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

They say so is half a lie.

If you run after two hares you will catch neither.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

Sickness is felt but health not at all.

Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.